{"id":2436176,"date":"2025-05-18T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-russiagate-information-will-provide-accountability-patel-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:54:49","slug":"new-russiagate-information-will-provide-accountability-patel-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-russiagate-information-will-provide-accountability-patel-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"New Russiagate information will provide &#8216;accountability&#8217;: Patel &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-russiagate-information-will-provide-accountability-patel-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2436176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kash Patel, the FBI Director, has revealed the finding of new facts related to the &#8220;Crossfire hurricane&#8221; inquiry, which focused on allegations connecting Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign to Russia. During an interview with Dan Bongino on Fox news, Patel emphasized the importance of presenting this information to the public in a way that ensures accountability. He accused previous FBI leadership of concealing crucial documents and stated that he and Bongino are working toward increasing transparency regarding the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Patel claimed that he has found materials and information that were intentionally hidden by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gets-snippy-with-reporter-for-asking-about-classified-docs-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Gets Snippy With Reporter for Asking About Classified Docs Scandal\">past officials<\/a> and expressed a commitment to releasing these findings in the coming weeks. While acknowledging the delays in accountability for the &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation, Patel stated that their focus is on making withheld documents public.<\/p>\n<p>Bongino added that their short tenure within the agency poses challenges in addressing a long-standing, politicized investigation.He accentuated the necessity of balancing the need for thoroughness with the urgency of delivering results. The discussion also touched on re-deploying FBI agents from Washington, D.C. to better serve communities across the country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Kash Patel previews new Russiagate information will provide &lsquo;accountability&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2122935\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kash Patel<\/a> says he has discovered new information related to the agency&rsquo;s &ldquo;Crossfire Hurricane&rdquo; investigation regarding allegations of ties between President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> 2016 presidential campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Russia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While appearing alongside FBI Deputy Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dan-bongino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Dan Bongino<\/a> on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo<\/em>, Patel cautioned that it is key to showcase the new information to the public in a manner that provides &ldquo;accountability.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3415036\/appeals-court-unfreezes-trump-order-targeting-federal-worker-unions\/\">Appeals court unfreezes Trump order targeting federal worker unions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3413764\/judge-blasts-dojs-state-secrets-claims-abrego-garcia\/\">Judge blasts DOJ state secrets claims in Abrego Garcia case: &#8216;Utter frustration&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3414043\/dc-circuit-panel-skeptical-trump-administration-independent-officials\/\">DC Circuit panel skeptical of Trump administration ability to fire independent officials<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Patel stated that he and Bongino unearthed new &ldquo;Russiagate&rdquo; information last week. He accused the FBI&rsquo;s previous leadership of withholding and hiding important documentation, saying they went so far as to hide it in rooms &ldquo;where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boycott-disney-new-marvel-show-agatha-all-along-hyped-as-gayest-show-yet\/\" title=\"Boycott Disney: New Marvel Show \u2018Agatha All Along\u2019 Hyped as &#039;Gayest&#039; Show Yet\">people weren&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t supposed to look.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As such, Patel and Bongino are working to &ldquo;clean it up&rdquo; and provide &ldquo;a wave of transparency&rdquo; to the public, hinting that this would be revealed in &ldquo;a week or two.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was the lead &lsquo;Russiagate&rsquo; investigator for the House Intelligence Committee, and I&rsquo;ve been on both your shows in a prior life talking about it, and I&rsquo;m telling you and the American public that we have now found material and information and people who wanted to hide it from the world since we got in these seats&rdquo; Patel stated. &ldquo;We are trying to do it in a fashion where not only are we informing the American public about what happened, but we can have accountability for it, and that takes a little bit more time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2940734&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=4a887da085fc2ab463e08369df3dea2b\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Patel was pressed on why there has yet been any accountability on &ldquo;Crossfire Hurricane,&rdquo; to which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-hits-back-at-abc-hosts-hints-at-vaccine-passports-we-were-always-going-to-get-to-a-point-where-we-could-take-masks-off\/\" title=\"CDC Director Hits Back At ABC Host\u2019s Hints At Vaccine Passports: We Were Always Going To Get To A Point Where We Could Take Masks Off\">director stated<\/a> he and Bongino were not present in the agency half a decade ago. He acknowledged that &ldquo;people before us&rdquo; could have done more to exercise this accountability, but he is focusing on releasing documents to the public that were previously withheld.<\/p>\n<p>Bongino noted how he and Patel have been at the agency for only a few months, and are working to unravel a &ldquo;multi-year politicized investigation.&rdquo; He suggested that people must ask whether they &ldquo;want this done right or you want it done quickly.&rdquo; The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >deputy director added<\/a> that the agency is working on protecting the nation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cybersecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"cyber attacks\">cyber attacks<\/a> and other threats as it works to provide accountability to the investigation against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not an excuse, it&rsquo;s just reality,&rdquo; Bongino stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3413746\/trump-comey-8647-social-media-post-assassination-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP FIRES OFF ON COMEY&rsquo;S &lsquo;8647&rsquo; MESSAGE: THAT MEANT ASSASSINATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Patel also slammed the previous leadership of the FBI for making it an agency that &ldquo;permitted a man or a woman to be killed twice an hour&rdquo; in the United States. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3413755\/kash-patel-fbi-hoover-building-agents-leaving-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">why 1,500 FBI agents are moving out of Washington, D.C., to be sent out into the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to deploy FBI agents away from the nation&rsquo;s capital stems from how roughly &ldquo;a third&rdquo; of the agency&rsquo;s workforce was in Washington D.C. As such, the agency&rsquo;s deployment will provide all 50 states with &ldquo;a plus-up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2122935\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2122935\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel reveals new Russiagate info for FBI accountability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2436177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kash-Patel-FBI-Russiagate-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[8049,51054,32603,16740,32076],"class_list":["post-2436176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-accountability","tag-patel-2","tag-political-news","tag-russiagate","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kash-Patel-FBI-Russiagate-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436180,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436176\/revisions\/2436180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}