FBI Director Patel Finds Thousands of Unburned Russiagate Documents in Secret Headquarters Room

FBI Director Kash Patel said he found the agency's burn bag room full of sensitive documents from the Russiagate investigation, but nobody could get inside at first. The room was not on the building map at all.

Patel appeared on Tuesday's episode of Hang Out with Sean Hannity and referenced a prior discussion on the podcast. Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino had talked about the same room.

More than one burn bag, a large paper bag used to destroy, shred and burn classified information, sat inside this secret room locked away in FBI headquarters, Patel said.

"They weren't burned, but the room was also off the map. It wasn't on our blueprint, and nobody had access to it."

When Bongino joined the show earlier, he said he found a bag with the mother lode of documents on Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia.

He figured the documents were intentionally spared from destruction. Someone meant for them to be found, he said, and the files showed what the agency really knew during the investigation.

"I'm reading this document, and I'm like, 'I can't believe this happened in the United States.' It wasn't just that it happened in the United States, it was that so many people knew about it," Bongino said. "All you had to do was read it. This thing was bulls--- from the start."

In July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard alleged that the Obama administration pushed a narrative on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that officials knew was false.

In August, the Department of Justice opened a grand jury investigation into Gabbard's claims. Earlier this year, the DOJ subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey over his role in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference.