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2019-02-13 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Confirmed: FBI Offered State A Quid Pro Quo To Keep Hillary E-Mail Classification Quiet
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[Hot Air] Newly released internal FBI emails showed the agency’s highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clinton’s lawyer in the days prior to the 2016 presidential election, on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails found on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop.

The trove of documents turned over by the FBI, in response to a lawsuit by the transparency group Judicial Watch, also included discussions by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page concerning a potential quid pro quo between the State Department and the FBI ‐ in which the FBI would agree to downgrade the classification level of a Clinton email in exchange for more legal attache positions that would benefit the agency abroad. There was no indication such a quid pro quo ever took place. ...

"Jason Herring will be providing you with three 302s [witness reports] of current and former FBI employees who were interviewed during the course of the Clinton investigation," Page wrote. "These 302s are scheduled to be released to Congress in an unredacted form at the end of the week, and produced (with redactions) pursuant to FOIA at the beginning of next week.

Page continued: "As you will see, they describe a discussion about potential quid pro quo arrangement between then-DAD in IOD [deputy assistant director in International Operations Division] and an Undersecretary at the State Department whereby IOD would get more LEGAT [legal attaché] positions if the FBI could change the basis of the FOIA withhold re a Clinton email from classified to something else."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-13 02:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Can you say - Obstruction of Justice?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-13 06:25||   2019-02-13 06:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Schiff: "Nothing to see here..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-13 07:39||   2019-02-13 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 All the evidence pulled a shred at a time... and do you think anything will ever come of it?
Posted by Ho Chi Elmarong7611 2019-02-13 08:21||   2019-02-13 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 All the evidence pulled a shred at a time... and do you think anything will ever come of it?

Short answer: No.

Everyone inside the beltway halls of power are fully aware of what took place. All others should not be asking questions or reading those pesky blogs or following the internets.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-13 08:26||   2019-02-13 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 A strong argument to fire everyone from middle management up in the FBI and DOJ.

They should all be in jail.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-13 08:37||   2019-02-13 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Had she won the election (as planned) all of this unpleasantness would have floated down the river, totally unnoticed.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-13 09:06||   2019-02-13 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 re #4 Short answer: No.

Long answer: Hell No!!
Posted by AlanC 2019-02-13 09:18||   2019-02-13 09:18|| Front Page Top

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