The release of critical documents related to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, was slow-walked and, in some cases, blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, former deputy national security adviser Kash Patel said in an interview on Feb. 28.
Trump, on his last night in office, ordered the declassification of previously confidential documents related to the flawed counterintelligence investigation launched by the FBI in July 2016 to investigate allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.