The full truth about the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation has long been buried. Jim Jordan is asking Kash Patel to end the Biden-era stonewalling and to hand over a trove of documents on the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
A top House Republican is calling upon the FBI’s new chief to comply with his committee’s requests for the truth about the FBI’s deeply flawed investigation into and promotion of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday that “the Committee still must fully assess and understand the lengths to which the FBI went to interfere in the 2016 presidential election,” according to a letter obtained by Just the News.
Jordan asked Patel to hand over a host of documents tied to the false collusion saga — documents which now-former FBI Director Christopher Wray had refused to provide.
“During the 117th and 118th Congresses, the Committee sent several letters requesting information and documents concerning the FBI’s failings in opening and conducting an investigation — code named ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ — into debunked allegations of collusion between President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government,” Jordan’s new letter to Patel said. “Unfortunately, former Director Wray failed to produce many of these materials before he resigned.”
Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report said the launch of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane was hugely flawed and that an “objective and honest assessment” of the facts “should have caused the FBI to question not only the predication for Crossfire Hurricane, but also to reflect on whether the FBI was being manipulated for political or other purposes,” but “unfortunately, it did not.”
Wray responded to the Durham report in the summer of 2023 by downplaying its findings and arguing to the House Judiciary Committee that “the conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel John Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership had already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time,” while Wray contended that “had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.”
