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Senate GOP urges White House to declassify key remaining Crossfire Hurricane documents

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Birle, J. (2026, November 12). Senate GOP urges White House to declassify key remaining Crossfire Hurricane documents. Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4801455/senate-gop-urges-white-house-to-declassify-key-remaining-crossfire-hurricane-documents/

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Washington Examiner · collected 2026-11-12 · by Jack Birle

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Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, both Republican senators, have written to President Trump asking him to declassify the remaining documents from the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which examined alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. This comes over a year after Trump’s executive order to declassify all related documents, and the senators claim that significant materials are still classified.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) urged the White House to declassify the remaining documents related to the FBI’s investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government. This request comes more than a year after Trump issued an executive order to declassify all documents related to the discredited investigation. Grassley and Johnson believe that key materials remain classified and want them released to provide transparency and closure on an issue that dominated much of Trump’s first term.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urged the White House on Thursday to release the remaining documents related to the FBI’s discredited investigation into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, claiming key materials remain classified more than a year after Trump’s order to declassify all documents.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urged the White House on Thursday to release the remaining documents related to the FBI’s discredited investigation into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, claiming key materials remain classified more than a year after Trump’s order to declassify all documents. asserted
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Grassley, along with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of a Senate investigative subcommittee, sent a letter to the president requesting all remaining documents be declassified in line with Trump’s March 2025 executive order regarding the discredited investigation that consumed much of Trump’s first term in the White House. asserted
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