Hillary Clinton Gets Massive Surprise From Kash Patel
Following an executive order from President Donald Trump that mandated the release of materials from the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation—which centered around unsubstantiated allegations of Trump-Russia collusion—Director Kash Patel has delivered hundreds of pages of newly declassified records to Congress.
In addition, Just the News has obtained almost 700 pages of these files, labeled the “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” and dated April 9, 2025.
This move is part of a broader effort stemming from a March executive order issued by Trump that seeks to finalize the release of documents tied to the FBI’s inquiry into Trump’s alleged connections with Russia. A similar effort during the final days of Trump’s first term in January 2021 was halted by his own Department of Justice.
The recent developments also follow persistent resistance over four years from the FBI and the Department of Justice under President Biden’s administration—particularly from former FBI Director Christopher Wray and former Attorney General Merrick Garland—who opposed making the materials public.
Originally launched based on dubious claims of collaboration with the Kremlin, the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe targeted both then-candidate and later President Trump during and after the 2016 election. The investigation involved Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee at the time.
Eventually, the probe was strongly criticized by figures within the intelligence and law enforcement communities, many of whom viewed it as politically motivated and designed to undermine Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s March order, titled “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” references his prior, unsuccessful attempt to unseal the same documents on the last day of his first term.
“I have determined that all of the materials referenced in the Presidential Memorandum of January 19, 2021 … are no longer classified,” Trump declared in the new directive.
Back in January 2021, Trump had pointed to a binder of Crossfire Hurricane documents reportedly sent by the DOJ to the White House on December 30, 2020, at his request.
“I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder,” Trump stated on January 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.”
Trump’s memo from that time explained that he had “decided that the materials should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.” However, the FBI under Wray indicated that certain parts “it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure” should remain classified.
Trump ultimately agreed to the FBI’s proposed redactions and instructed the DOJ to release the rest of the documents. That release never happened, as the Justice Department chose not to act on Trump’s final declassification order once he left office.
On the morning of January 20, 2021, outgoing White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows issued a directive stating that, pending a Privacy Act review, the DOJ “must” publish the declassified binder concerning the flawed Russia probe.
Despite Trump’s order and Meadows’ directive, the FBI under Wray and DOJ under Garland never made the documents available to the public.
Special counsel Robert Mueller led a two-year investigation under the DOJ and concluded that the probe “did not establish” any criminal conspiracy between Trump and Russia. Additionally, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz identified major failings in the FBI’s handling of the case, particularly its reliance on a dossier he described as “central and essential” to the politically influenced surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The controversial dossier was assembled by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was working with Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm.
Fusion was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign through the law firm Perkins Coie and attorney Marc Elias.
According to a later DOJ report by special counsel John Durham, “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.”
Durham also reported that the FBI “ignored the fact that investigators were unable to corroborate a single substantive allegation in the Steele dossier reporting at any point before, during, or after Crossfire Hurricane.”