DNI Gabbard Says the FBI Burn Bags Discovered that Contained the Newly Released Durham Annex Are Clear Evidence of an Intelligence Community Cover-Up Attempt

Johnson: “Could you elucidate for us who are not potentially familiar with what a burn bag is, why would you keep documents in one? What is the intended purpose of a burn bag?”
GABBARD: “I have, for example, have classified intelligence that comes across my desk every day. These are different intelligence reports that are being generated from across the intelligence community. Sometimes the best way to deal with these documents, after I’ve read them — of course, I don’t have the only copy — is to put them in a burn bag in order to make sure that they don’t end up in the wrong hands, either intentionally or unintentionally. So I have a bag next to my desk — that is a burn bag — this is common in many of the offices of those who work in the national security space or perhaps in the White House, but it’s about securing intelligence and making sure that it goes to its intended recipient, not the janitor who comes in to empty the trash, for example. But for these highly classified documents to be placed in a burn bag within the FBI, where apparently they’re — at least at this point, I’m not aware of other copies of those documents existing, this is where we have, to me, what appear to be signs of very clear malintent to try to cover-up, again, bad actors within the intelligence community.”