Todd Blanche reveals DOJ room with Jack Smith probe documents in burn bags

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department found a room full of documents from former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump.

talking on “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” On the podcast, Blanche said the room wasn’t officially a “secret” but the staff didn’t know about it. His comments came after FBI Director Kash Patel and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also discussed documents discovered by investigators.

“We found a room like this at the Department of Justice a few months ago,” Blanche said. “It wouldn’t be right to say it’s a secret room, but it’s a room with a lot of stuff in it.”

Blanche added that the documents were found in “burn bags”, which are often used to destroy sensitive documents for security purposes. While it is not uncommon for such bags to be used to get rid of sensitive information, he said he believes that where the information was left, an “honorable” agent was trying to protect it.

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“It’s not the presence of the burn bag that I think is interesting or problematic, depending on which side you’re on,” Blanche said.

“It was in such a place that I realized an honorable FBI agent might have left it there because it wasn’t normally the place to be destroyed,” he added. “[We] “It kind of stumbled, but it almost seemed intentional.”

In April, Bongino revealed to Hannity that he had found a “mother lode” of documents linked to the “Russiagate” investigation that he claimed should be destroyed.

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“This was essentially the keys to the kingdom at Crossfire. And the document was so sensitive that we couldn’t even move it out of the office,” Bongino said.

“I read this document and say, ‘I can’t believe this happened in the United States.’ Not only did this happen in the United States, so many people knew about it,” he said. “All you had to do was read it. This thing was bullshit from the beginning.”

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino held a press conference at the Department of Justice on December 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

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Bongino said the nearly 100-page document reshaped his understanding of the investigation. He said he was “scared” that so many people were involved and did not speak out.

The “Crossfire Hurricane” was the FBI’s investigation into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. In July 2025, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard alleged that the Obama administration promoted a narrative about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that officials said she knew was false.