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Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, a memorandum issued by the Administration of Donald J. Trump, dated January nineteenth, two thousand twenty‑one. This document records the President’s final determination on the declassification of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and it is notable for the explicit direction to accept the FBI’s redactions while releasing the remainder. The text was uploaded to The Black Vault’s digital archive, with the entry titled “Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.” The file was made publicly available through The Black Vault’s collection of government records, citing the original memorandum as its source. No FOIA case number is listed; the release reflects the archive’s standard practice of providing scanned copies of declassified or publicly released documents. The memorandum reads as follows: “United States Government, Information, G.P.O., Administration of Donald J. Trump, two thousand twenty‑one. Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. January nineteenth, two thousand twenty‑one. Memorandum for the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Subject: Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following: Section one. Declassification and Release. At my request, on December thirtieth, two thousand twenty, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified form. I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter dated January seventeenth, two thousand twenty‑one, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. [redacted] I have determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI in that January seventeenth submission. I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is my final determination under the…

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Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, a memorandum issued by the Administration of Donald J. Trump, dated January nineteenth, two thousand twenty‑one.

Date: JUL 31 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, a memorandum issued by the Administration of Donald J. Trump, dated January nineteenth, two thousand twenty‑one. This document records the President’s final determination on the declassification of materials related to the Federal…

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What was Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation about?: Trump Declassified Documents Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, a memorandum issued by the Administration of Donald J. Trump, dated January nineteenth, two thousand twenty‑one.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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