FBI Director Kash Patel has delivered nearly 700 pages of declassified documents to Congress from the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, following an executive order by President Trump. The documents, dated April 9, 2025, were also obtained by Just the News and mark the culmination of Trump’s years-long effort to expose what he calls a politically motivated probe.

The Crossfire Hurricane investigation began in 2016 based on unverified claims of Trump-Russia collusion. It was later discredited by the DOJ Inspector General and Special Counsel John Durham, who found no evidence of collusion and faulted the FBI for relying heavily on the Steele dossier, which was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Trump’s original declassification attempt in January 2021 was blocked by his own DOJ. Despite his directive, backed by then–Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, the Garland-led DOJ and FBI under Wray withheld the documents for years, citing privacy and classification concerns.

With Trump’s new 2025 order titled “Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” Patel has now made the materials public. Trump says this move exposes serious misconduct in the intelligence community and vindicates his claims of political targeting.