Director Kash Patel speaks with Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum before a bill signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 19. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
The declassified annex will be transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who ultimately will release the document to the public.
Patel, in a June interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, revealed that he found a room full of documents and computer hard drives "that no one had ever seen or heard of."
"Just think about this," Patel told Rogan. "Me, as director of the FBI, the former 'Russiagate guy,' when I first got to the bureau, found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, 'No one's ever gonna find this place.'"
Patel and his staff have been working through the documents, some of which are related to sensitive investigations, including the FBI’s original Trump–Russia probe, known inside the bureau as Crossfire Hurricane.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested information related to former special counsel John Durham’s probe. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
It is unclear what the latest documents cover specifically, but sources told Fox News Digital that the most recent discovery was pursuant to an investigative request from Grassley.
Patel has turned the documents over to Grassley.
Grassley has been requesting information related to Durham’s probe. Durham was appointed after then-special counsel Robert Mueller completed his yearslong investigation into the origins of the Trump–Russia probe — including intelligence community malfeasance during and in the aftermath of the 2016 election.
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Sources told Fox News Digital that Grassley’s team is now reviewing the underlying information as part of its investigative work.
As for the other records, Patel’s staff is working to turn them over to Congress pursuant to investigative requests by committees of jurisdiction.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.
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