On this week’s episode of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” FBI Director Kash Patel addressed the longstanding allegations that President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was aided by Russian interference. He revisited the origins of the debunked collusion narrative and suggested new information would soon be made public.
Although the window for bringing criminal charges has closed due to expired statutes of limitations, Patel revealed to host Maria Bartiromo that Americans should brace for an incoming “wave of transparency” in the coming weeks.
Here is a portion of their exchange:
BARTIROMO: I watched it with you and Devin Nunes, when you were truth-tellers on all of this, and you were as well, Dan, throughout the Russia collusion story and the rest.
PATEL: Look, I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon.
Patel criticized past FBI leadership, asserting that individuals such as Comey, McCabe, Strzok, and others knowingly misled the courts and manipulated the truth. He accused them of orchestrating a massive fraud using taxpayer funds in an attempt to sway the results of a presidential election and suppressing key exculpatory evidence in courtrooms where Patel himself once prosecuted terrorist suspects.
PATEL: But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withholds sculptor information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that’s what broke the FBI.
He emphasized that, once exposed, these officials doubled down on the deception. Patel commended Bartiromo and others for covering the scandal from the beginning and highlighted the momentum now building as unedited records from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation are being released to lawmakers.
PATEL: And then, when they were caught, they lied about it. And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we’re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they’re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability.
He added that this process is critical in rebuilding the public’s confidence in the FBI after years of institutional damage.
PATEL: And that’s how you restore what the — the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.
BARTIROMO: Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years.
Bartiromo challenged the lack of consequences for the key players involved, noting their continued presence in the media and absence of legal repercussions.
BARTIROMO: One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They’re fine. There’s been no accountability.
In response, Patel acknowledged the criticism and agreed that more could have been done in earlier years when the legal avenues were still viable. He explained that his team is limited now by expired legal timelines but remains committed to revealing suppressed information.
PATEL: Well, look, it’s a fair criticism. But what I will tell people is, we weren’t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are 5 years old.
He reiterated that investigations will still move forward when justified by law, but the agency’s current focus is transparency—uncovering what previous leadership buried and making that information available to Congress and the public.
PATEL: And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we’re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it’s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.
PATEL: But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I’m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we’re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out.
He further revealed how deep the deception went, describing how records were stashed away to prevent their discovery. Patel praised the current team’s efforts to uncover and publicize these materials.
PATEL: That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look. And it’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency.
BARTIROMO: What do you mean?
PATEL: Just give us about a week or two.

{Matzav.com}