Nearly 700 pages of previously unreleased information from Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s unsuccessful investigation into a possible link between Russian agents and the 2016 Trump campaign, were presented to members of Congress by FBI Director Kash Patel.
Starting at 7 p.m. EST, the documents will be available for public viewing in near-real time exclusively on JustTheNews.com.
The new documents will hopefully help dispel the unfounded rumor that President Donald Trump conspired with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, which his opponents continued to spread long after it was proven false. When special counsel John Durham published his years-long investigation in 2023, declaring that there was no evidence of such a relationship, the allegations were formally deemed dead.
Leading proponents of the hypothesis, like as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), have nevertheless continued to bear the burden of Russiagate, claiming that Durham’s assessment was “flawed from the start” and refusing to produce the proof he has long claimed to have that demonstrates Russia’s ties to Trump.
President Trump was thinking about the Russia connection fake this week when he attacked the California Democrat and criticized the media for not supporting him.
Regarding Schiff, Trump remarked, “He knows it’s a hoax because he made it up with Crooked Hillary.”
According to the publication, the new documents are titled “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” and were created on April 9, 2025. It comes after the “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” an executive order issued by Trump in March.
When he announced the order, he stated, “I have concluded that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19, 2021 … are no longer classified.”
The 2021 directive, which Trump claimed former President Joe Biden did not obey, made reference to a binder containing Crossfire Hurricane investigation papers that he received from the U.S. Justice Department on December 30, 2020, a few weeks before he was scheduled to leave the White House.
On January 19, 2021, Trump declared, “I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder.” “I have instructed the Attorney General to apply the redactions suggested in the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an appropriately redacted copy. This is my final decision under the declassification review.”
Trump wants “the materials to be declassified to the maximum extent possible,” according to the 2021 memo. Nevertheless, the FBI replied in the middle of 2021, stating that it had concluded the 700 pages contained sections of the investigation’s report “that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure.”
The remaining records were never declassified, despite Trump’s agreement to “accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI.”
Along with Durham’s conclusions, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia connection had irreversible flaws. He specifically highlighted the “central and essential” role of the Steele dossier, a document that was created by a Clinton campaign agent and presented as intelligence from Russian sources.
