Kash Patel finds thousands of Russiagate docs in 'BURN BAGS' at FBI: report

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly found numerous sensitive documents related to the Russia hoax probe in the bureau that were in "burn bags," meaning they were documents designated classified or higher and were set to be destroyed, sources told Fox News.

Multiple burn bags were found in the building filled with thousands of documents, the sources said. One such document was a classified annex to former special counsel John Durham's final report. This annex included the underlying intelligence he reviewed for the report. 

The annex is in the midst of being declassified, with the process being done in close coordination between Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman. The annex, once declassified, will ultimately be released to the public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Graddley. 

One source familiar with the contents of the annex told the outlet, "Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the US government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia."

The source added, "Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper, and Comey are going to be able to explain this away."

In addition to the documents, Patel and his team have also discovered a previously undisclosed sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in the FBI headquarters. Patel revealed in a June interview with Joe Rogan that he had found a room full of computer hard drives and documents that "no one had ever seen or heard of."

"Just think about this. Me, as director of the FBI, the former 'Russiagate guy,' when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, 'No one's ever gonna find this place,'" he said.