{"id":273583,"date":"2016-10-18T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=273583"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T08:14:00","slug":"the-dodgy-quid-pro-quo-deal-that-clinton-wanted-to-bribe-the-fbi-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-dodgy-quid-pro-quo-deal-that-clinton-wanted-to-bribe-the-fbi-with\/","title":{"rendered":"The dodgy ‘quid pro quo’ deal that Clinton wanted to bribe the FBI with"},"content":{"rendered":"
Newly released FBI documents pertaining to the investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email servers show that an unnamed FBI agent claims Patrick Kennedy, the State Department\u2019s Undersecretary of State for Management, offered a bribe to the agency.<\/div>\n
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According to an interview summary, an unnamed FBI official alleged that they had \u201creceived a call from [REDACTED] of the International Operations Division (IOD) of the FBI, who \u2018pressured\u2019 him to change the classified email to unclassified. [REDACTED] indicated he had been contacted by PATRICK KENNEDY, Undersecretary of State, who had asked his assistance in altering the email\u2019s classification in exchange for a \u2018quid pro quo.\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy, who served directly under Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, was accused of offering to increase the FBI\u2019s presence abroad \u201cby allowing the FBI to place more Agents in countries where they are presently forbidden<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official went on to explain that this was not a one-off comment from Kennedy. In fact, Kennedy asked in a meeting whether the FBI could \u201csee their way to marking the email unclassified<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

The official told investigators that they felt the State Department\u2019s \u201cagenda<\/em>\u201d was to minimize controversy from Clinton\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n

The classification of the email is a troublesome issue for the Clinton presidential campaign. In the more than 30,000 emails that were on the server, FBI Director James Comey claimed that 110 were classified. Additionally, 2,000 emails were \u201cup-classified<\/em>\u201d to the level of Confidential.<\/p>\n

Allegations that Kennedy engaged in a quid pro quo arrangement could be detrimental to both the Clinton campaign as well as Kennedy\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Devin Nunes (R-California), Chairman of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter on Monday to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging him to remove Kennedy from his position pending an independent investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cUndersecretary Kennedy allegedly assured the FBI official that the State Department would \u2018bury\u2019 the email using a rare Freedom of Information Act exception (b)(9), which relates to geological and geophysical information,<\/em>\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n

However, another interviewee gave an entirely different version, CNN reported<\/a>. Another FBI employee claimed that it was the FBI who brought up placing agents in Iraq in exchange for declassifying information. However, the FBI employee was later told the email would remain classified.<\/p>\n

A now-retired FBI official told the State Department that they would \u201clook into the email matter.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Both reports converge over the point that Kennedy continued to follow up in an attempt to have them declassified.<\/p>\n

In addition, both the State Department and FBI have denied these allegations while Clinton\u2019s team continues to downplay any potential conflict from it. State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner called the allegations \u201cinaccurate<\/em>\u201d and told reporters: “Classification is an art, not a science, and individuals with classification authority sometimes have different views.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been committed to releasing as much information to the public as possible, and ensuring that documents are withheld due to classification only when necessary to prevent damage to national security \u2013 as the Executive Order on classification calls for,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Toner also disagreed with calls to remove Kennedy, saying: “That\u2019s their prerogative. I can say Pat Kennedy is going to remain at his job and he has the full confidence of the secretary of state.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI denied any wrongdoings, but the report did note, “Some FOIA officials have seen events and behaviors they did not like or that made them uncomfortable, to include Kennedy’s attitude towards them and how they handled the FOIA process related to Clinton.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s campaign pounced on the accusations. In a statement released Monday, senior communications advisor Jason Miller wrote: \u201cThe news that top Clinton aide Patrick Kennedy tried to engage in a blatant quid pro quo for changing the classification level of several of Clinton\u2019s emails shows a cavalier attitude towards protecting our nation\u2019s secrets.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKennedy must resign from the State Department immediately and Clinton must state he has no place in her administration if she is elected president.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQcAe-4vAX0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via: Top State Dept official accused of offering FBI \u2018quid pro quo\u2019 to declassify Clinton emails \u2014 RT America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly released FBI documents pertaining to the investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email servers show that an unnamed FBI agent claims Patrick Kennedy, the State Department\u2019s Undersecretary of State for Management, offered a bribe to the agency. According to an interview summary, an unnamed FBI official alleged that they had \u201creceived a call from [REDACTED] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}