Fox News reports Saturday that, found among FBI interview summaries and notes collected during the Hillary Clinton email investigation and provided to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committee late Friday (of course) are allegations of a quid pro quo between a senior State Department executive and FBI agents.
BREAKING: A senior State Dept official discussed a "quid pro quo" w/the FBI in exchange for reclassification of HRC emails, per FBI docs.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 15, 2016
FBI officials, including CT Dir Michael Steinbach, nixed the arrangement and refused to change the classification of the HRC emails.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 15, 2016
Kennedy also asked FBI to make one sensitive HRC email "B9" FOIA exempt so it was "never to be seen again," per FBI docs.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 15, 2016
At this point, nothing surprises me. This admin has reached new levels of corruption.
— Lt Col Fred Garvin (@realfredgarvin) October 15, 2016
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News there was “an alleged quid pro quo” involving Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy and the FBI “over at least one classified email.”
From @FoxNews: New FBI files contain allegations of 'quid pro quo' in Clinton's emails. 'Flashing red light.' https://t.co/DilNvryRQr
— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 15, 2016
From @FoxNews Catherine Herridge: Officials discussed deal in which State would re-classify Clinton email in return for FBI jobs overseas.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 15, 2016
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Chaffetz told Fox News the possibility of additional FBI jobs at missions overseas was discussed in return for altering the classification of at least one of Clinton’s emails.
Chaffetz said that he personally has not yet had the opportunity to read the new documents, which include classified records that must be read in a secure facility (or in a hacker’s basement). However, he was briefed by staffers and says the new documents are “a flashing red light of potential criminality.”
Finally, Chaffetz said he’s infuriated, as this is the third batch of documents released by the FBI, who “left to their own devices … would never have provided these [records] to Congress and waited until the last minute.”
https://twitter.com/rayguy3/status/787416620692103173
The potential scale of this fraud makes Watergate look like a one-busker street corner act.
— Oratorio Sphinctus (@ECrustius) October 15, 2016
Now why would that need to be done if there wasn't any classified information on HRC's private server?
— JP (@ThePoliticalJPH) October 15, 2016
This is getting as bad as bad gets…and it appears nothing will be done to anyone.
— B?b Cook (@BobCook72) October 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/gunsntoolz/status/787436492100472832
@AG_Conservative Honestly, what trust will the American citizen have with the system if justice isn't handed out.
— Stewart Hanson (@Jaystew17) October 15, 2016
Why is no one stepping in and doing something to them over this? Do laws really no longer matter?
— pt—rockwnn (@patrick7901) October 15, 2016
Nothing's going to change, nothing's going to happen. #sameolshit
— The Valinator (@GigCityChick) October 15, 2016
https://twitter.com/Dwagner2465/status/787429262966005760
Something to keep in mind:
There no indication in FBI docs that HRC or her campaign directed Kennedy to seek a deal on reclassifying emails.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 15, 2016
Of course not.
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Update:
Here’s Stephen Hayes’ write-up at The Weekly Standard.
An Attempted Hillary Email Coverup? https://t.co/hyVTGBwCWj
— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) October 16, 2016
Here’s a taster, but by all means, read the whole thing:
[An] FBI official spoke with [Patrick] Kennedy and Kennedy raised the possibility of keeping at least one Clinton email from public disclosure by obtaining a “B9” exemption under the Freedom of Information Act, a rarely used exemption that refers to “geological and geophysical information and data.” One email in particular concerned Kennedy and, according to the FBI summary, providing a B9 exemption “would allow him to archive the document in the basement of the department of state never to be seen again.” The FBI official told Kennedy that he would look into the email if Kennedy would authorize a pending request for additional FBI personnel in Iraq.
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Related:
He doesn’t recall: State Department record-keeper doesn’t recognize emails he sent https://t.co/5WZtMgyChL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 1, 2016
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