Report: Patel Found ‘Burn Bags’ Full of Trump-Russia Probe Documents
“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.”
Fox News reported that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered numerous “burn bags” filled with sensitive documents about the 2016 Trump-Russia probe.
Yikes.
The documents destined to burn are labeled classified or higher.
From Fox News:
Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.
Sources told Fox News Digital that one of the documents FBI officials found in a burn bag was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham’s final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.
The declassification of the classified annex is being done in close coordination between CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting National Security Agency Director William Hartman.
The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.
The sources also said that some of the contents included “that the U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump–Russia collusion narrative” before anyone launched the probe.
“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source told Fox News.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been on a roll, releasing documents leading people to believe the conspiracy to link then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russia in 2016 went up to the White House.
Then-FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper pushed back against the intelligence community after it said the collusion narrative “was not rooted in credible intelligence reporting.”
Brennan knew that no truth existed in that Steele dossier, but insisted on using it even though the CIA’s senior Russia experts objected.
And yes, the evidence points to Obama:
- On December 9, 2016, President Obama’s White House gathered top National Security Council Principals for a meeting that included James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss Russia.
- After the meeting, DNI Clapper’s Executive Assistant sent an email to IC leaders tasking them with creating a new IC assessment “per the President’s request” that details the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” It went on to say, “ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS.”
- Obama officials leaked false statements to media outlets, including The Washington Post, claiming, “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”
Declassify these documents and let’s find out more.
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The FBI can’t even destroy compromising material within the better part of a decade?
Sad!
Obama’s and Biden’s FBI. Maybe Clinton’s, too. This is just terrible – will there be enough time and will Congress have the guts to pass laws stopping this behavior? If it continues, its players have got to have mandatory punishment. YIKES!
“will there be enough time and will Congress have the guts to pass laws stopping this behavior? ”
A law will stop this behavior?
Vigorous prosecution more likely.
They didn’t think they’d have to. They figured the election would be stolen and the former Vice prostitute would win
Conclusion: The FBI was filled with people too lazy to take the burn bags to the incinerator.
There’s another possibility. That there are one or two honest, knew-what-was-going-on employees who set these bags aside on the hope that they would be forgotten and that Trump would win.
Incompetent? Nah. If you were in possession of lovely juicy black material, would you destroy it?
Items put in a burn bag must be cataloged and signed off by the person placing them in the burn bag. If a document signed off as placed in a burn bag then shows up the signee is liable to prosecution under federal statues. Find the log entry and signatures and you know who to investigate and prosecute.
Technically, it sounds as though the documents were still in the bag, but were never “burned”.
It doesn’t matter. It was an obvious attempt to hide or destroy documents that were relevant to an investigation. That makes it a felony. The log ID’s the agent who put them in the bag. These conspirators aren’t as smart as they think.
“That’s not my signature. Timestamp says I wasn’t even in town. Prove otherwise.” — Agent AutoPen
I’m sure the plan was to leave them there until somebody decided to use the room for something else and then merely “got rid of the trash”.
Then Wray et al would not be responsible for their destruction.
A puzzling story. Items slated for destruction sat around in burn bags for years? I worked in Air Force intelligence. As @Moehowardwasright explains, there is a method that is employed in disposing of inactive or unneeded intelligence data and reports. This story just sounds crazy to me.
I’m genuinely amused how many people seem to believe that the laws and rules on the books are the things that actually happen. The map is not the territory.
@SDN. Doubtless what you say is true. I agree that the map is not the territory, but when I was in the military, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, an infraction regarding the disposal or misuse of classified information, even low-level classified information, would get you court-martialed. IOW, HRC would have been hanged. They were serious about this stuff back then. Now, yeah, the clowns are in control. Also, items slated for the burn bag were shredded first. So what exactly did Patel find? A paper mosaic?
This FBI can find everything but the Epstein files!
probably burned long ago
Now Patel’s comment of over a week ago that he found “bags” of stuff just lying around suddenly makes much more sense to me. Yeah, burn bags, didn’t think of those.
Iirc Rogan interviewed Patel 1st week of June, and he said this — and a lot more. Great interview btw. Dunno why things he said are just making headlines 7 weeks later.
This is way bigger than Watergate
Yeah, but if the lame stream media papers of record don’t report on it (which they will ignore and downplay it), then it effectually never happened.
Gee, it almost feels like a cliché —
Move along, folks. There’s nothing to see here.
Grrrrr!
Burn bags? Burn bags?!?? You’d think that any classified documents that were no longer needed would be immediately shredded into the “Burn Bags” so that in the event that they didn’t get incinerated for whatever reason a person couldn’t just open the “burn bag” and shuffle through any of the intact classified documents that had been put in the bag. But I guess that isn’t what happened and here we are and there we go.
The shredder doesn’t have clearance for that level of information.
Thanks for the laugh!
That would depend on the classification level. Some classified document can be incinerated without using a level 6 shredder It sounds like someone was in a big hurry to get rid of incriminating evidence.
it was hillarys team that started the obama is a foreigner
and then ,,with the usual help of the msm ,,were able to pin it on the gop who merely passed on the information THAT THE CLINTON TEAM WAS SPREADING
and now of course as we are finding out alll those “right wing conspiracies” are proving true once again………obama/biden pushing sheer treasonous YEAH treasonous agendas
The burn bags resulted in inaction because the choice was just to difficult to make- cover up all traces of a treasonous conspiracy or exacerbate the climate emergency by igniting the burn bags.
“And yes, the evidence points to Obama:”
Speaking of Obama, a trap has been set:
Because of the SCOTUS decision in Trump vs. The United States, Obama is immune from prosecution for acts committed in the performance of his duties as President. Therefore, he can’t plead the 5th to a grand jury convened to assess whether a 18 USC 241 conspiracy against Trump’s rights existed.
If Obama lies to a grand jury, presidential immunity won’t save him. Thus, he must either tell the truth, thereby hanging the Brennans, Comeys, and Rices of the world (the lesser demons), or risk prosecution for perjury committed not as President but as a former one where presidential immunity doesn’t apply.
I doubt that conspiring to set up his successor with a false political scandal is an official act committed in the performance of his duties as President. So I don’t think he would have immunity for it.
Make a false report to your local podunk police department and you’re in trouble. Yet the entire upper tier of federal LE and intelligence, in concert with the POTUS, can use a known hoax to start a series of criminal investigation against a sitting POTUS yet that isn’t a crime?
Consider this – the conspirators initiated a series of investigations based on a known hoax, co-opting the entire federal LE and intelligence community, harnessing it in the service of the Democrat party, to ultimately defraud the taxpayers out of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars. The fraud has a dollar amount attached to it, and is the least of the cost of the hoax for which the conspirators should be on the hook. This was not a victimless crime, the American taxpayers were robbed.
Sorry, I’ll take the current of the current President, who has access to far better legal counsel than you do, over yours:
“It probably helps him a lot. Probably helps a lot. The immunity ruling, but it doesn’t help the people around him at all. But it probably helps him a lot,” Trump said Friday.
I’ll also take the opinion of John Solomon over yours for the same reason:
“I think President Trump’s analysis was right [where he said,] ‘I think my immunity ruling might protect him on the original charges.’ That’s what most legal experts tell me. That ruling is so sweeping that it will protect him for what he did in office. However, Barack Obama can now be summoned before a grand jury. He cannot take the 5th amendment because he has immunity from prosecution. He’ll have to tell the truth. If he lies as a private citizen about what he did as President, he’ll no longer have that immunity.”
That doesn’t mean Obama won’t try to plead the 5th, but if he does I believe he’ll be overridden, even if the matter has to work its way out of the swamp to the SCOTUS.
This is the one and only comment I will make to you on this topic. I’ve seen how you roll in these comments sections, and won’t burn time getting into some back-and-forth p*ssing contest with you.
* opinion of the current President…over yours *
In the dictionary under FBI transparency it says Patel.
I don’t want to hear about stuff found. I want to see justice — people arrested and perp walked over this outrageous slam dunk stuff.
Then I want the details. The evidence. THEN. Not first. Nothing ever happens. Fatigue set in a long time ago.
Perps 100,000 arrests 0. Wtf really?
Don’t bother w these nothingburgers.
I am fairly disappointed in Kash Patel. Didn’t think that would happen.
Yeah, I have been away. Busy time of year!
You and the Red Queen are on the same page: “Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards,”