FBI Director Kash Patel is raising new alarms over alleged misconduct inside the Bureau during the Obama years, accusing former FBI leadership of shielding Hillary Clinton from prosecution and manipulating investigations for political purposes.

In a candid interview with Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Patel said the agency must come clean about its past if it wants to regain public trust. Central to his claims is the assertion that the FBI deliberately concealed multiple investigations involving then-candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

“The FBI concealed investigations for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,” Patel declared. He alleged that former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Donald Trump removed in May 2017, overstepped his authority and independently blocked efforts to prosecute the former Secretary of State.

“(The previous) FBI usurped the constitutional responsibilities held by the Department of Justice and the Attorney General,” Patel said, adding, “Comey decided for himself what cases to prosecute and what not to.”

Patel referenced the infamous Clinton email scandal that dogged her campaign, suggesting that it was quickly buried by the FBI and later weaponized to divert attention through the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

“If you don’t believe me, look at the video record,” Patel challenged, further alleging that Comey “intentionally omitted investigation information or distorted prosecution decisions during his tenure as FBI Director.”

In July 2016, as the presidential race intensified, Comey stunned the public with a press conference in which he acknowledged “carelessness” by Clinton in handling classified materials—but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges. The decision sparked outrage from critics who saw it as political interference masquerading as law enforcement.

Then, with just ten days before voters went to the polls, Comey briefly reopened the probe—only to close it again. Clinton later blamed that eleventh-hour development for her election defeat.

Patel didn’t stop there. He turned to the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, which he described as fraudulent from the beginning.

“New details have been uncovered,” Patel said. He accused Comey of “maliciously and brutally distorting the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)” and “lying to the American people.”

According to Patel, Comey “concealed relevant documents and hid them in places that cannot be found.”

Deputy Director Dan Bongino, in a follow-up appearance on Fox & Friends, echoed those claims and revealed that materials from Comey’s tenure were recently discovered in an obscure storage area—one he said had been hidden from the current leadership.

“I wouldn’t call it hidden, but hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us,” Bongino said. “Then we found stuff in there and a lot of it’s from the Comey-era, and we are working our damndest right now to declassify.”

Bongino explained the delay in disclosure, noting that some documents require clearance from other intelligence agencies. “The process is [that] not all information is ours to declassify,” he said. “We literally can’t do it.”

He emphasized the significance of what’s been found. “We found it in bags hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI, and you’re going to be stunned,” he warned.

While Bongino did not divulge the contents of the recovered files, he made clear that further revelations are on the way—promising accountability for what many on the right view as one of the most politically charged abuses of power in modern FBI history.

The conversation also turned to a recent Instagram post from Comey that raised eyebrows. In the cryptic image, seashells spell out the number “8647” alongside the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Some in Trump’s administration suspect the number carried a not-so-subtle political message.

The “86,” a slang term for removal or elimination, combined with “47”—a reference to Trump’s campaign to become the 47th President—has been interpreted by some as a veiled threat or provocation aimed at the Commander-in-Chief.

As President Trump continues his push to root out corruption in federal agencies, officials like Patel and Bongino are turning over every stone—revealing what many Americans have long suspected: that political bias and bureaucratic cover-ups ran rampant under Comey’s leadership.