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BREAKING: Trump Declassifies Crossfire Hurricane Documents
Katie Pavlich | @KatiePavlich | Posted: Jan 19, 2021 7:10 PM
Just hours before leaving the White House, President Donald Trump declassified documents related to Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign officials during the 2016 election and well after the Trump administration took hold in January 2017. The announcement was made in a memo sent to the Attorney General, CIA director and Director of National Intelligence.
"At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form," Trump wrote. "I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission."
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