Staff Reports
When FBI Director Kash Patel walked into a previously concealed room at FBI headquarters and found multiple burn bags stuffed with documents tied to the Crossfire Hurricane probe, it confirmed what patriots have suspected for years: key pieces of the Russiagate puzzle were being hidden, not explained. Patel has since turned that material over to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and moved to get the public the answers it was denied for a decade.
Among the papers recovered was the classified appendix to John Durham’s 2023 report — the so‑called Durham annex — a compact but explosive document that Grassley formally declassified and released at the end of July 2025. The annex lays out previously secret intelligence and raises hard questions about how the Clinton campaign narrative and the FBI’s early handling of the Russia story were entwined.
Patel has been clear about how the discovery happened, recounting that his team located the locked room and the burn bags while combing FBI archives and storage, remarks he made publicly during interviews and congressional testimony as Congress pushed for transparency. The bureau’s own timeline suddenly looks messier when thousands of files and hard drives surface years after the fact.
Let’s be blunt: this isn’t just an administrative snafu or an archival mistake — it smells like a cover‑up. For years after the 2016 campaign, rank‑and‑file Americans watched as establishment journalists and swamp bureaucrats insisted there was nothing to see; now documents are turning up in trash bags inside the Hoover Building. That discrepancy demands not spin, but prosecutions if wrongdoing is found.
The Durham annex and the burn‑bag discovery make the case for accountability undeniable. Grassley’s release accuses the Obama FBI of failing to pursue intelligence suggesting a politically motivated scheme to link President Trump to Russia, and that failure cannot be waved away as mere incompetence. If senior officials conspired to mislead a court, a Congress, or the public, then our justice system must respond with the same ferocity it shows to the powerless.
Credit where credit is due: Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi moved aggressively to declassify material that previous administrations buried, and Chairman Grassley did what a senator should do — he forced the paperwork into daylight. That kind of transparency is the only vaccine against institutional rot; now Congress and the Department of Justice must follow through on subpoenas, interviews, and, if necessary, indictments.
Americans deserve an FBI that defends the nation instead of protecting political narratives, and they deserve a media that reports facts rather than covers for the powerful. The burn bags are a reminder that liberty depends on vigilance; patriots must demand that the full truth come out and that no one, regardless of title or party, be allowed to hide behind redactions and delays.
