More stalling and CYA...
(Jacobs) will report “directly” to Kerry and to Deputy Secretary for Management Heather Higginbottom, Kirby said. “The plan going forward is she will have regular meetings with Secretary Kerry and Deputy Secretary Higginbottom,” the spokesman said.
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In other Clinton email news, Kirby said the State Department does not consider a statement issued Monday by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III to be a final, definitive ruling on the classification of two Clinton emails intelligence officials claim contain “TOP SECRET” information.
“At this time, we would continue to maintain that any conclusion about the classification of the documents in question is premature,” Kirby said. “I expect that we will be able to present at least a portion of [our] analysis to the intelligence community in the coming days. We’re working that very hard.”
In other words, the CIA people are stupid?! That should go over well!