FBI Caught Hiding Almost Two Million Jack Smith And Other Records In Hidden Room

A lawsuit from an ethics watchdog reveals the FBI was using a hidden room to conceal almost two million records on anti-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith and other investigations so they could not be turned over under a legal order.

The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch announced in a statement that “the U.S. Department of Justice has reported that the FBI found about 1.9 million pages of records that are responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.”

“This is an astonishing and troubling revelation. The FBI and Justice Department must go all out to release the nearly 2 million secret FBI and DOJ files on the lawfare against Trump and whatever else the Obama and Biden gangs don’t want Americans to know about,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “I have no doubt these records are far more important than the Epstein files.”

“These documents were reportedly stored in a ‘hidden room’ at FBI headquarters and were first revealed by former Deputy Director Dan Bongino,” Judicial Watch reports.

In a Fox News interview on May 29, 2025, then-FBI Deputy Director Bongino stated:

There was a room [in FBI Headquarters], and we found stuff. A lot of stuff … hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us. And then found stuff in there. A lot is from the Comey era. We are working … right now to declassify. And just so you know, because I get the public—I totally understand people saying “well do it now.” The process is: not all of the information is ours to declassify. Some is other intelligence agencies’…. We literally can’t do it. Once that gets done … and you read some of the stuff we found—that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing and putting in FBI records. We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI. You’re going to be stunned.

At the time Bongino did not reveal how many records there were, or what they were related to.

It is now known some of the hidden records related to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s failed effort to imprison President Donald Trump for “Russian collusion” and other false charges.

“According to the FBI’s filing, a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) contains several safes holding between approximately 950,000 and 1,900,000 pages of records. The FBI estimates that processing these materials could take up to a year,” Judicial Watch notes.

The records appear to include the following:

Legacy Files: These records consist of older legacy records, the majority of which relate to two closed, historical investigations. These records belong to the DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG), and prior to release, must be sent to the DOJ OIG for consultation on its equities in the records.

Other files: These records consist of more recent records related to various investigations, including, for example, active investigations and prior Special Counsel investigative records, many of which are likely to require consultation with other government agencies prior to release.

According to Judicial Watch:

In July 2025, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued a press release titled “Clinton Campaign Plan to Falsely Tie Trump to Russia and FBI’s Failure to Investigate” concerning additional Comey-era events. Grassley made public the formerly Classified Appendix (“Durham annex”) to John Durham’s 2023 Special Counsel report. Grassley’s office stated:

The Durham annex contains previously classified information exposing a reported Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia.

The annex also goes into further detail on matters discussed in the Unclassified Report, specifically:

Potential election influence by a foreign government regarding Hillary Clinton;

False statements to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) regarding FISA renewal applications for Carter Page;

The FBI’s failure – under the leadership of then-Director James Comey – to investigate intelligence that the Clinton campaign may have created the Russia collusion hoax. Meanwhile the Comey-led FBI used the Steele Dossier – a Clinton campaign creation – to obtain FISA warrants on Carter Page.

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