State Dept. pressured FBI to protect Hillary Clinton: FBI files

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Washington Times:

Republicans accused the Obama administration Monday of “a cover-up” of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of top secret emails, after FBI investigative files show a top department official tried to bribe the FBI into not declaring some of her messages secret.

 

Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management, offered a “quid-pro-quo” to let more FBI agents into some countries where their numbers were being limited by the State Department, in exchange for the FBI going back and lowering the classification on Clinton emails, according to one accuser in the FBI’s files.

The revelation comes as emails hacked from the account of John Podesta, longtime Clinton associate and now her presidential campaign chairman, suggest the State Department was giving Mrs. Clinton’s team inside information about the progress of its own efforts to process Mrs. Clinton’s messages.

 

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the accusations were “inaccurate,” but Republicans said they showed a striking effort by President Obama’s team to protect Mrs. Clinton.

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The FBI’s Own Investigation Summary Proves Hillary Clinton Broke The Law

Reminder: Hillary is above the law.

October 17, 2016 By David Harsanyi

 

According to documents released today, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy pressured a senior FBI official into unclassifying emails sent from Hillary Clinton’s illegal private server. The FBI official notes that Kennedy contacted the organization to ask for the change in classification in “exchange for a ‘quid pro quo.'”

 

More specifically, “State would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more agents in countries where they are presently forbidden,” according to a conversation relayed by The Weekly Standard‘s Stephen Hayes, who broke the story this weekend. The FBI did not take Kennedy up on his offer.

 

Despite initial denials from the State Department, this exchange is entirely plausible. For one, State had plenty of expertise in the deployment of quid pro quo during Hillary’s years of enriching her family foundation by trading government access. Moreover, a senior FBI official has a lot less reason to fabricate http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/17/the-fbis-own-investigation-summary-proves-hillary-clinton-broke-the-law/