Seven questions ahead of the FBI’s Russiagate and Jan. 6 documents release

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The public may soon know more about unanswered questions surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, an unexplained pipe bomb threat that day, and the state-backed effort to surveil President Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Trump’s picks to uproot what critics see as institutional rot in the bureau, said this week the agency is set to release batches of documents to bring about “accountability.” The pair promised there would be a “truckload” of long-withheld internal files during their pretaped appearance on Sunday Morning Futures.

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