FBI finds secret ‘burn bags’ filled with thousands of documents related to 2016 Russia investigation

The FBI says it’s discovered thousands of documents related to the Russia-Trump investigation, according to Fox News.

The documents were stored in burn bags at a secret location in the bureau.

One of the finds involves a classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham’s final report, which foretold how the FBI would be used to spread the Russia-Trump collusion story.

“A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move ‘with alarming specificity,’” Fox reported.

The discovery adds weight to the piles of evidence uncovered by American intelligence services and the FBI that the discredited Russia-Trump collusion story was used as a method to hamstring the first Trump administration.

Earlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released multiple sets of newly declassified documents, asserting they reveal the Obama administration manipulated intelligence to construct a false narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 election aimed at undermining President Donald Trump.

“The issue I am raising is not a partisan issue,” Gabbard declared. “It is one that concerns every American. The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government.”

FBI Director Kash Patel previously told podcaster Joe Rogan the bureau had a roomful of documents and hard drives relating to the Russia investigation, which were hidden by former FBI Director James Comey, Fox noted.

“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the anonymous source told Fox News Digital.

Patel and agents at the bureau have been going through the documents, some of which are not related to the Russia-Trump investigation code-named Crossfire Hurricane.

The investigation’s name reportedly came from then-FBI agent Peter Strzok, an anti-Trump partisan who specialized in counterintelligence. “Crossfire hurricane” is the opening lyrics of a Rolling Stones song, a boomer favorite, and it violates all the naming conventions of secret investigations and operations, something with which Strzok should have been familiar.

He was later relieved of duty after highly inflammatory anti-Trump texts between Strzok and his then girlfriend, Lisa Page, who was also investigating the Russia-Trump allegations, were disclosed publicly.

“[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page asked.

“No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok texted back. The discovery of the until-now secret classified annex, which lays out how the FBI would ultimately weaponize the cooked intelligence to go after Trump, adds more urgency to the new investigation looking at the motivations of those driving the anti-Trump scheme.

“Mere days after this intelligence [in the annex] was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source told Fox about the documents in the burn bags. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”