OAN Staff Brook Mallory
6:18pm – Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the FBI to quickly declassify the documents. 2016 Crossfire Hurricane Investigation – They tried to determine whether Trump's campaign members conspired with Russia during the presidential election.
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Trump said the media could look up previously withheld information related to the investigation after signing the order, but many journalists questioned whether they would actually do so – the findings did not satisfy leftist journalists and reporters who long believed the story of “Russian conspiracy” was true.
“You probably don't care because you don't like what you see,” Trump explained. “But this was a complete weaponization. It's a dishonorable. It would never have happened in this country. But now we can see for ourselves. Everything will be declassified.”
July 31ststin 2016, the FBI launched an anti-intellectual investigation to determine whether Trump, then running for president or campaign member, had conspired or cooperated to shake up the 2016 election. Within the department, the investigation was known as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
July 28thththen CIA director John Brennan, described the rumored plan from one of Hillary Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisors, saying that he was “by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian Security Agency.”
This was only a few days after the investigation began.
That year, Clinton was a Democratic presidential candidate. But she still lost to Trump.
The key document that prompted the investigation to begin was the “Steel Deja,” disclosed to Trump in January 2017 by then-FBI director James Comey. It had lawsuits and unfounded claims against Trump's cooperation with the Russian government.
Fusion GPS had asked former UK intelligence agent Christopher Steel to write related documents. During the 2016 election cycle, Fusion GPS was also adopted in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The documents were eventually found to have been funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton Campaign via legal firm Perkins Koy.
Comey was fired by Trump in May 2017.
Robert Mueller was appointed special advisor a few days later to take over the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation and investigate whether the Trump campaign would shake up Russia and the 2016 election cycle. The House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee then launched its own investigation into alleged cooperation between Trump and Russia, and Mueller conducted the investigation.
By February 2018, Kash Patel, the current director of the FBI and former chief investigator of Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Email Committee Chairman, had discovered many cases of illegal government surveillance.
Patel played an important role in the development of the documents Nunes published in February 2018, explaining how the FBI and DOJ monitored pages under the foreign intelligence report monitoring law. The Democrat-funded anti-Trump documents spy on the “formed an essential part of the application” page, Nunes and Patel revealed.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe then testified in a closed room that “will not have been sought after” by the FISA court “without Steel's documentation information.”
However, the FBI failed to disclose Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential rival, which is the source of funding the documents, when requesting a FISA order.
According to documents, FBI informant Steele was eventually fired from the agency for what the FBI called the most serious offence. “Unauthorized disclosure of FBI relationships to the media.”
According to the memo, the “first FISA warrant” for the three FISA updates and pages were obtained by the FBI and DOJ.
According to the Act, FISA orders of US citizens must be “reviewed” every 90 days. McCabe, former assistant attorney general Rod Rosenstein, former assistant attorney general Sally Yates and former representative attorney general Dana Boente all signed at least one FISA application.
Despite widespread Democrat criticism, the notes turned out to be accurate.
After reading the report, Department of Justice inspector Michael Horowitz admitted that the documents were the basis for the controversial FISA warrants obtained against the page.
Meanwhile, in April 2019, special advisor Robert Mueller concluded his investigation into Trump-Russia's potential connections. During the thorough investigation, no illegal conspiracy or cooperation was found between Trump and Russia.
However, groups like the American Constitutional Association (ACS), a legal organisation on the left, have argued that “Russian interference in the 2016 election was fundamental and systematic,” as reportedly revealed by Mueller's report. Despite this, the ACS admits that “Mueller refused to exonerate Trump.”
Following the release of Mueller's findings, then-power of Attorney Bill Barr appointed Connecticut Attorney John Durham as a special advisor to investigate the origins of the “Crossfire Hurricane” itself. After years of research in his investigation, Durham concluded in his final report, published in May 2023. The FBI undoubtedly lacked concrete evidence to support the launch of the investigation.
When the FBI and the Justice Department began an investigation into Trump Russia, he added, “we were unable to support a strict fidelity mission to the law.”
The “clear warning sign” that the FBI is a “target” of Clinton-led attempts to “operate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes” in the preliminary stages of the 2016 presidential election was another factor that Durham pointed to the FBI.
Durham hinted at evidence suggesting that the Clinton team is planning to link Trump with Russia.
Moreover, according to Durham's final report, his decision to forward evidence to the FBI was not made regarding the briefing or subsequent decisions.
“The foregoing facts reflect a rather surprising and mysterious failure to properly consider and incorporate Clinton Plan Intelligence into the FBI's investigative decision-making in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” the Durham report states.
In fact, if the FBI began investigating Crossfire hurricanes as an assessment and collaborated with information from Clinton Plan Intelligence to collect and analyze the data, the information received may have been investigated at least with a more important point of view,” the report continued.
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