FBI Director Kash Patel spoke about the need to clean house “inside the walls of Hoover” after dropping some familiar names that were “strewn all over” incriminating material found in burn bags at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“I was blown away, but sadly it’s come to be expected in this town when corrupt bureaucrats weaponized and destroyed law enforcement like predecessors of mine did at the FBI,” Patel said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity.”
“And thankfully, Donald Trump’s mandate and election victory was for transparency and accountability,” he said.
“I come in then years later, nearly a decade, as a director of the FBI, thinking we uncovered most of it,” Patel added, after referencing the Russia-gate hoax, which included FISA abuses to surveil a presidential candidate. “But sadly, we found a room locked away in the Hoover Building that contained burn bags.”
.@FBIDirectorKash says they found a locked room in the FBI’s Hoover building with seven ‘burn bags’ and hard drives with material on Russiagate:
“Folks like Page, Strzok, Comey, McCabe… the names were strewn all over these materials.” pic.twitter.com/cIW64ASXxr
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 15, 2025
After explaining what a burn bag is, Patel added, “We didn’t find one. We found seven. That wasn’t the only thing we found in there. We found hard drives from our predecessors and prior FBI leadership and folks like [Lisa] Page, [Peter] Strzok, [James] Comey, [Andrew] McCabe.”
“The list goes on from Russiagate. The names were strewn all over these materials,” he explained.
“Now, as our great attorney general just told you, we can’t deny or confirm what we’re looking at, but what we can discuss is what we’ve publicly disclosed, and these documents have been publicly disclosed because the greatest way to educate and bring along the American public for transparency, initiative, and accountability under President Trump is to give them the documents,” Patel concluded. “And step one is by cleaning house inside the walls of Hoover.”
Of course, real accountability starts with arrests.
— Jared Marsh (@Real_JaredMarsh) August 15, 2025
— Skip Solis (@s_solis44) August 15, 2025
Sounds like they are educating the public to prepare us for the upcoming arrests.
— Relaxing News (@RelaxingNews) August 15, 2025
Cool. When are we going to see some arrests????
— Constitutionalist (@RightVet23) August 15, 2025
let’s see – we haven’t seen any perp walks in the past eight months @WhiteHouse and @FBIDirectorKash
— Spartan (@staylo27) August 15, 2025
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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