The Justice Department is investigating whether former senior FBI officials mishandled classified documents that were found in a “burn bag” at the bureau’s headquarters, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documents in question are related to the FBI’s probe into whether Russia influenced<\/a> the 2016 election in President Trump’s favor. That investigation has drawn Mr. Trump’s ire for years \u2014 he’s called the allegations that Russia sought to help him win a “hoax” and a “witch hunt,” and in recent weeks, some top administration officials<\/a> have claimed Obama-era intelligence leaders who looked into Russian meddling may have broken the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody has been criminally charged in the probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The “burn bags” first entered the public discourse last month, when Fox News<\/a> reported that FBI Director Kash Patel discovered thousands of Russia-related documents in bags that are typically used to hold sensitive materials that are about to be destroyed. Days later, Patel wrote on X<\/a>: “We just uncovered burn bags\/room filled with hidden Russia Gate files.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n