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November 20, 2025
Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for FBI Records Found in Secret Room
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for “hidden” records from former FBI Director James Comey’s era that were referenced during a Fox News interview with Deputy Director Dan Bongino (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:25-cv-04047)).
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the FBI failed to respond to a June 2, 2025, FOIA request for:
1. All documents referenced by Deputy Director Dan Bongino as having been discovered in a room “hidden from us and not mentioned to us,” discussed in a Fox News interview at
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1928099455095427383;2. All internal FBI communications among officials in the offices of FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino related to the discovery of these documents; and
3. All directives sent to officials from the offices of the Director and/or Deputy Director regarding the handling and disposition of the documents.
The May 29, 2025, X post about the Fox News interview with Bongino has the headline “The FBI just discovered that James Comey had a whole room of secret documents! We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI, you’re going to be stunned. – FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.” Bongino states:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/fbi-records-secret-room/