👉NEWS: Patel Says FBI’s Comey ‘Concealed’ Probe Into Hillary Clinton

FBI Director Kash Patel stated last week that “the FBI concealed investigations concerning then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,” as he advocates for increased transparency within the bureau to restore trust among the American public.

Patel expressed these views alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino during an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, further noting that former FBI Director James Comey, who was dismissed by President Donald Trump in May 2017, independently chose not to pursue any charges against the former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate.

“(The previous) FBI overstepped the constitutional duties assigned to the Department of Justice and the Attorney General,” Patel remarked, adding, “Comey made unilateral decisions regarding which cases to prosecute and which to disregard.”

Patel specifically pointed to Clinton’s email controversy prior to the 2016 election — before she allegedly orchestrated the ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ narrative to divert attention from her own actions.

“If you doubt my claims, refer to the video evidence,” Patel stated, adding that Comey “deliberately excluded investigation details or misrepresented prosecution choices during his time as FBI Director.”

At the peak of the campaign season in the summer of 2016, Comey held a press conference to declare that, although the FBI had uncovered what many considered prosecutable offenses related to Clinton’s attempts to hide emails from investigators, “no reasonable prosecutor” would initiate charges.

Then, under significant pressure and merely ten days prior to the election, he reinstated the investigation into the email controversy, claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had jeopardized national security by utilizing a personal email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. Clinton subsequently indicated that the timing of this renewed investigation was a crucial element in her electoral defeat.

Patel also addressed the ensuing investigation into Trump’s purported connections to Russia, which ultimately proved to be unfounded.

“New information has come to light” concerning that investigation, Patel stated, further asserting that “Comey maliciously and brutally misrepresented the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and deceived the American public.”

“He concealed pertinent documents and obscured them in locations that are difficult to locate,” Patel continued.

Bongino expanded on this during a “Fox & Friends” interview on Thursday.

The deputy director mentioned that his office discovered evidence from Comey’s time in a room that had been “concealed from us,” as the bureau has had to reallocate resources due to ongoing internal inquiries.

“I wouldn’t describe it as hidden, but it was at least hidden from us and not disclosed to us, and then we uncovered items in there, much of which dates back to the Comey era, and we are currently making every effort to declassify it,” Bongino informed Fox News.

He added: “I completely understand people saying, ‘Well, do it now.’ The reality is that not all information is ours to declassify; some belongs to other intelligence agencies, and we literally cannot do it.”

“Once that process is completed and the information is released, and you review some of the materials we found that … were not processed through the standard procedure, digitizing it, and incorporating it into FBI records. We discovered it in bags concealed under Jim Comey’s FBI, and you will be astonished,” Bongino remarked.

Bongino refrained from revealing specific details about the findings but seized the opportunity to criticize Comey, who was removed from his position during Trump’s initial term. His comment