FBI Director Kash Patel told Joe Rogan during an interview published Friday that he found a “room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building” filled with “documents and hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of.” “My guys are going through that right now,” he said. “What’s in there? A lot of stuff.” “People are like, ‘Well, okay, go arrest him.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, well, how about you let me run a methodical investigation while I give over information?'” “Why would they write everything down?” Rogan asked. “They’re so arrogant,” Patel said. “They think, ‘No one’s going to catch us. I’m going to write everything down. We’re going to put it in a lock box. We’re going to put it in a vault, and no one’s going to find it. Well, guess what? I found the vault, and now I’m going to work.” “Generally, the statute of limitations on process crimes is five years. But if you can tie them to an overarching conspiracy, there is no statute of limitations.”

FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL: I’ll give you a great example that goes right back to Russiagate. One of the big systems I’ve created-maybe because of my time in Russiagate-is I’m committed to congressional oversight. I’m committed to giving Congress the documents they need to do their work and to giving them to the American people unredacted. No classification BS. You want it, you get it. So think about this: me at the director of the FBI, the former Russiagate guy. When I first got to the Bureau, I found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building-full of documents and hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. They locked the key, hit access, and just said, No one’s ever going to find this place. My guys are going through that right now. What’s in there? A lot of stuff. People are like, Well, okay, go arrest him. And I’m like, Okay, well, how about you let me run a methodical investigation while I give over information? One of the things we gave over before this room deal was-well, I don’t know if you remember who Nelly Ohr is, but it doesn’t really matter. Nelly Ohr’s husband, Bruce, was like the number four at the Department of Justice, and he was the one who introduced the world to Christopher Steele, the guy that started Russiagate. Well, the entire time her husband was doing that at DOJ, Nelly Ohr was working on an outside contract to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. So she goes to the Hill and testifies-right under oath-I never worked, and I’m paraphrasing, I never worked with my husband on any of that. I would never do that. What Grassley put out just yesterday-two days ago-the Nelly documentation that the FBI hid from the world, that we gave them, shows Nelly caught red-handed providing information to her husband via thumb drives related to Trump-Russia collusion-directly proving that Nelly lied to Congress. Felony. Can’t prosecute her-statute of limitations is gone. That’s just one example. JOE ROGAN: What a dirty business. KASAH PATEL: Yeah, I hate it. JOE ROGAN: Politics is just-it is the dirtiest. And in this age of transparency-because of the internet, social media, and independent news-everybody knows about it now. If CNN and all these left-wing news sources like MSNBC were the only outlets, and it was only Fox on the right, and we had no internet, all this would be completely secret. No one would have known about the Russiagate collusion. That all that stuff would be-people would really think it’s a true story. It would probably take decades before someone wrote a book where people started to take it seriously and realize that there was something [expletive] up about it. KASH PATEL: I’m not allowed to plug my book, so I won’t. … But the reason I wrote it is: one, I never thought I was going back into government service; and two, part of the job-completing the mission-was exposing what people didn’t ever think could happen in the United States of America. It was not just disinformation or misinformation, but your government and leaders in government weaponizing it for political purposes-not just FBI and DOJ, but others in the Intelligence Community. And what it shows you is the back end of that too-the rewards. The guys that were — wrapping it up or reversing it — those guys that were in charge of Russiagate at the FBI. Andy McCabe, right? Remember what this guy did? Andy McCabe agreed to set in motion a plan with the deputy attorney general at the time, Rod Rosenstein, to have him wear a wire into the Oval Office to record President Trump. Those documents we found-we released them. Whoa. Put that aside while Andy McCabe was in charge of the Trump-Russiagate collusion investigation: his wife was running for political office in the state of Virginia. Do you know who’s funding her campaign? $ 600,000-from the Hillary Clinton world, who happened to be running against Donald Trump. Do you know what Andy McCabe did? He leaked information about the Clinton investigation to the media unlawfully as the deputy director of the FBI, got caught by us, then lied about it to federal authorities-that’s why Andy McCabe was dismissed. Do you know what the Biden administration did? They allowed him to retire out of the FBI with full benefits. Wow. He got rewarded. You know what he does now? He’s on CNN. You know who’s also on CNN? Peter Strzok-the head of the counterintelligence unit that had that affair with Lisa Page, who basically put out those text messages. He was running that investigation with Andy McCabe and said, Trump people smell in Walmart and we’re never going to let them win. I have an insurance policy. That guy is on CNN. So those guys get rewarded for putting on this disinformation campaign, this illegal activity, because the media will never correct-or some portion of the media will never correct-the record. Remember, these guys got Pulitzers. New York Times-same thing. These guys got the biggest award in journalism. They were proven wrong-not by me, but by their own evidence. How did I catch these guys? Because they were so arrogant they would write everything down. I found the documents. JOE ROGAN: Why would they write everything down? KASH PATEL: They’re so arrogant. They think, No one’s going to catch us. I’m going to write everything down. We’re going to put it in a lock box. We’re going to put it in a vault, and no one’s going to find it. Well, guess what? I found the vault, and now I’m going to work. JOE ROGAN: Now, is there a statute of limitations on those crimes? KASH PATEL: So, generally, the statute of limitations on process crimes is five years. But if you can tie them to an overarching conspiracy, there is no statute of limitations. So if there was more egregious conduct that no one knew about before that we are just finding and we are investigating, then we’ll have to re-look at it. The one thing we will do is put out all that information to the American public once we actually get through it, and we’ll give it to Congress. And if we can work with our partners at DOJ to come up with a prosecution, that’ll be their decision. We’ll do it. The disturbing thing about all this, to me, is how people on the left are willing to look the other way, because this is just a dangerous precedent. If the federal government is doing this, and they’re doing this to someone who you consider an enemy, what’s to stop them from doing it against your candidate? This is unprecedented behavior that’s tolerated and coordinated with the media. That’s dangerous for the country, but people are so ideologically captured. They’re so locked into their party, and by any means necessary we’ve got to get Trump out-and they push that narrative so hard that they’re willing to do a very un-American thing. My goal now that I’m back in government is to make sure this doesn’t happen again-ever. That’s the goal. Interviewer: How can you do that? How can you make sure it doesn’t happen again-ever? Speaker: Exposing it all. And I know there are people-and look, people keep calling me and saying, When are you going to arrest everybody that did everything to Donald Trump? I was like, first of all, you guys were barking at people who were in the seat before me to do that, and they didn’t. They failed. The difference between me and that guy is, one, I’m the guy that exposed it; two, I didn’t tell you this-I was the guy they targeted. So while I was doing the Russiagate investigation, do you know what Trump’s own DOJ-Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, Christopher Wray, then-director of the FBI-did to me and a dozen other staffers who were working Russiagate? They subpoenaed all of our information while I was running the Russiagate investigation. We wouldn’t find out for five years. You want to know why? Because these guys were so vindictive-they went to federal court, not only got a search warrant, they got a judge to say to all the telecom companies, Google, Facebook, everybody else, your banking companies-everybody-Do not tell them for five years that we authorized this subpoena. So I just found that out last year.
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