CROSSFIRE HURRICANE documents are starting to be released…President Trump previously told us proof of the stolen 2020 election would be included in these documents. FBI Records: The Vault — Crossfire Hurricane
FBI Director Patel sends declassified Crossfire Hurricane docs on Russiagate scandal to Congress
FBI Director Kash Patel — on the orders of President Donald Trump — has sent Congress the long-secret declassified “Crossfire Hurricane” records from the baseless Trump-Russia saga.
FBI Director Kash Patel has transmitted to Congress hundreds of pages of declassified documents from the bureau’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation related to false claims about Trump-Russia collusion, following a declassification executive order from President Donald Trump.
The nearly seven-hundred pages of declassified records have now also been obtained exclusively by Just the News. The release is labeled the “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” and is dated April 9, 2025.
The move by Trump and Patel follows an executive order by the president in March, after his prior efforts to declassify the FBI’s Russiagate scandal records in the final days of his first term were thwarted by his own Justice Department in January 2021. It also comes after the Biden-era DOJ and FBI under ex-Attorney General Merrick Garland and former FBI Director Christopher Wray spent four years refusing to make the records public.
The FBI’s investigation targeting both candidate and then-President Trump in 2016 and beyond began with ginned-up allegations of collusion between Trump and the Russian government, but Crossfire Hurricane was soon exposed as a ”Deep State” plot by politicized intelligence and law enforcement agencies to target Trump.
Trump new executive order Trump ordered in late March is titled “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.” In it, he referenced the prior thwarted executive order in his final full day in office during his first term. “I have determined that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19, 2021 … are no longer classified,” he said in annoucing the order.
Trump’s January 2021 order mentioned a binder of materials related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that the president said the Justice Department provided to the White House at his request on Dec. 30, 2020.
“I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder,” Trump said Jan. 19, 2021. “This is my final determination under the declassification review and I have directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy.”
“Crucial to keep from public disclosure”
The 2021 memo from Trump noted he had “determined that the materials should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.” But the FBI said in mid-January 2021 that the bureau had “identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure.”
Trump said at the time he would “accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI” and ordered the rest of the documents to be declassified and made available by the Justice Department. That never happened, in part, because Trump‘s final declassification request was blocked by the Justice Department after he left the White House.
A memo by Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows that was delivered on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 argued that the Justice Department “must” release the binder of declassified documents about the flawed Trump–Russia investigation, following a Privacy Act review.
The department under Garland and the FBI under Wray never released the records despite the declassification order from Trump and the last-minute memo from Meadows.
A two-year investigation by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller “did not establish” any criminal Trump-Russia collusion. In addition, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found huge flaws with the FBI’s investigation, including criticizing the “central and essential” role of a dossier in the FBI’s politicized surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
British ex-spy Christopher Steele had been hired by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to conduct his baseless anti-Trump research dossier, and Fusion GPS in turn had been hired by Clinton’s 2016 campaign by now ex-Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias.
Steele dossier completely debunked
A report by a new Justice Department special counsel, John Durham, concluded that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
The special counsel also said the “FBI ignored the fact that at no time before, during, or after Crossfire Hurricane were investigators able to corroborate a single substantive allegation in the Steele dossier reporting.” That fact did not stop notable Democrats from repeating the unproven allegations in the media. California Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was eventually censured in 2023 by his colleagues in the House for repeatedly making false allegations based on the bogus dossier, the Associated Press reported.
The declassified documents obtained by Just the News in January 2021 are related to the FBI’s flawed and politicized surveillance of Page, internal FBI notes from 2016 about Steele’s debunked dossier, a payment request for Steele, tasking orders for American academic and FBI confidential human source Stefan Halper, notes and transcripts from the FBI’s interview of Steele, and details on an unusual defensive briefing the FBI had given to Hillary Clinton.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley — along with GOP Sen. Ron Johnson — have long pushed the DOJ and FBI to declassify the Crossfire Hurricane records and to release all of the documents tied to the Trump-Russia saga, including calling upon Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to make these documents public earlier this year.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, has also been at the forefront of demanding answers on the debunked Russia collusion scandal, including asking Patel to release this long-concealed information earlier this year.
The new dozens of records released by the FBI and obtained by Just the News will hopefully shed further light on the matter.
