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A top State Department official offered a “quid pro quo” to an FBI investigator to declassify an e-mail from Hillary Clinton’s private server in exchange for allowing the bureau to operate in countries where it was banned, stunning new documents revealed Monday. The FBI documents show that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy pitched the deal to the unnamed agent, allegedly as part of an effort to back up Clinton’s claim that she did not send or receive classified documents on the server in her Westchester home. “[Redacted] indicated he had been contacted by [Kennedy], Undersecretary of State, who had asked...

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email by sattkisson on September 30, 2016 in Benghazi, News 98 Comments Since this article refers to both President and Mrs. Clinton, they are sometimes referred to by their first names for clarity. Most of the information is from the FBI report. Some contextual facts and dates have been added.  The Takeaways. The Players. The Timeline. The Takeaways The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because: The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the...

This ominous tweet of "more" with the above link was just sent out by the Drudge Report. There is a disclosure once you hit the link. Maybe some can make heads or tails of it: "Hillary Rodham Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013. The FBI conducted an investigation into allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure."

<p>Senior State Department official proposed a “quid pro quo” to convince the FBI to strip the classification on an email from Hillary Clinton’s server – and repeatedly tried to “influence” the bureau’s decision when his offer was denied, even taking his plea up the chain of command, according to newly released FBI documents.</p>

A senior State Department official sought to shield Hillary Clinton last year by pressuring the FBI to drop its insistence that an email on the private server she used while secretary of state contained classified information, according to records of interviews with FBI officials released on Monday. The accusation against Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's most senior manager, appears in the latest release of interview summaries from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's year-long investigation into Clinton's sending and receiving classified government secrets via her unauthorized server. Although the FBI decided against declassifying the email's contents, the claim of interference added...

Cut-and-paste of text: Re: We haven't had a good war with NYT in awhile From:nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2015-11-07 17:56 Subject: Re: We haven't had a good war with NYT in awhile That's good intel. And frankly if we had to live with just one better for it to be the one about a news article that discusses the drone operation. On Nov 7, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Jennifer Palmieri wrote: Thanks Adding Nick and Schake since they are on the road with HRC. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Brian Fallon wrote: Two things...

The State Department 'tried to make the FBI change the classification of emails during the Hillary Clinton investigation in exchange for more overseas postings for agents' A senior official with the State Department allegedly tried to have the FBI change the classification of an email during Hillary Clinton investigation Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz made the claim on Saturday Chaffetz said he has been briefed on new documents showing the claim He accused Patrick Kennedy of an 'alleged quid pro quo' with the FBI A senior State Department official allegedly tried to have the FBI change the classification of emails during...

FBI interview summaries and notes, provided late Friday to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committees, contain allegations of a "quid pro quo" between a senior State Department executive and FBI agents during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, two congressional sources told Fox News. In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed,” Chaffetz said. As Fox News previously reported, interviews released earlier this month, known as 302s, reveal the serious allegation that Kennedy applied pressure to subordinates to change classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress...

Hillary Clinton said she decided to employ a private email server "for the purpose of convenience" in early 2009 and doesn't remember "specific consultations" about using that account to conduct State Department business, the Democratic presidential nominee told lawyers in material related to a Freedom of Information Act case released Thursday. In written responses to 25 questions from the conservative group Judicial Watch, Clinton largely hewed to her prior statements about the email controversy, often saying she did not recall details about the arrangement. Clinton signed the court filing "under penalty of perjury" on October 10, one day after her...

Video Link -- Catherine Herridge on Fox reporting that Clinton leaked classified intel to Canadian bankers in one of her speeches.

State-sponsored hackers penetrate the systems of other nations. It happens regularly. The United States does it. China does it. Russia does it. Iran does it. Sometimes, hacking reveals that someone in the hacking nation is working with the enemy. When that happens, someone dies. Sometimes, a secretary of state receives e-mails — on her unsecured, private e-mail server — about an Iranian scientist who is providing information to the United States and then that scientist is later executed for espionage.Throughout the scandal surrounding her use of an unsecured, private e-mail server, Hillary Clinton claimed that she “never sent or received...

FBI director James Comey confirms that his investigation found classified information on the computer of top Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills. Mills was granted immunity in the Clinton email case. Why? Comey told the Senate that Mills’ immunity was a negotiation “tool to get the laptop.” Breitbart News reported that Mills, like Clinton, never signed mandatory security forms pertaining to the handling of classified information. Mills was granted immunity to protect her from prosecution while fellow Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who DID sign mandatory security forms, was not.

One of the things I've been waiting for one of the talking heads on television to discuss is the matter of headers on classified documents or messages. I've worked with classified information off and on for 40+ years. One of the requirements is that if there any of the paragraphs in a document has a classified portion marking, then the entire page/message must have a classified header/footer. If the messages in Clinton's e-mails had a (C) marking, then the message header should have had the same. That it did not indicates to me that someone removed the header. Who did...

The day after the Director of the FBI claimed that Hillary Clinton received classified emails on her personal email server before concluding that she violated no laws and would face no charges, a State Department spokesman contradicted him, stating that the emails in question had been improperly marked to begin with and therefore she did nothing wrong (something we reported last night). This morning, as the Director was being interrogated by House Republicans over his findings, one of the Democrats on the committee pointed out the discrepancy. This prompted him to revise his stance on the matter. Even as the...

At the NBC News “Commander in Chief” forum on Wednesday night aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invented a new alibi for her mis-handling of classified information, telling host Matt Lauer that she used a secure server when she needed to send classified information. In July, FBI director James Comey revealed that Clinton not only withheld and deleted work-related emails, but also sent classified emails — many marked as such — on her private, non-secure email server. Clinton told Lauer on Wednesday evening: "I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system....

The FBI released documents Friday evening before the Labor Day Holiday on the agency’s interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The report contains numerous bombshells that show just how careless the former secretary of state was in maintaining and using a private email system while in office, including these headlines from the Drudge Report. SERVER BREACHED… PORN PHISHING SCHEME… SHE CLICKED ON IT! SIGNED FOR RECEIVING CLASSIFIED TRAINING — SAID SHE DIDN’T… LOST CELL PHONES WITH SENSITIVE INFO… THOUGHT CLASSIFIED MARKINGS WERE ‘ALPHABETICAL PARAGRAPHS’… WITHHELD 17,500 EMAILS… LIST: THINGS SHE ‘COULD NOT REMEMBER’… The former State Department Secretary’s...

September 6, 2016 Former NSA officer John Schindler reports on a devastating fact NOT mentioned in the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton conducting State Department business on an unsecure homebrew email server. From the Observer: [Sidney] Blumenthal’s email read exactly like classified NSA reporting, as anybody acquainted with our SIGINT would immediately recognize. As one veteran agency official told me back in January, Blumenthal’s email was NSA information with “at least 90 percent confidence.” Which was no coincidence, since an NSA investigation subsequently determined that Blumenthal’s Sudan assessment was derived from their reporting—in some cases verbatim. As I reported in...

NOTE: Hillary has pretended she was never instructed on how to handle sensitive material. Unbelievably, she was reading her emails on the 8th floor balcony of the State Department. She was not allowed to use her mobile devices inside. The balcony offered hackers the perfect location for hacking. The following excerpt is from her book, HARD CHOICES. When we traveled to sensitive places like Russia, we often received warnings from Department security officials to leave our BlackBerrys, laptops — anything that communicated with the outside world — on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligence services from...

Hillary Clinton suggested to FBI investigators in a July interview that she had little understanding of classified information when she served as secretary of state. Clinton told FBI agents she could not remember ever receiving any training for how to preserve federal records or treat classified material. "Clinton could not give an example of how classification of a document was determined," the FBI wrote in its notes. "Clinton did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not be on an unclassified system," the FBI wrote.

Hillary and Bill Clinton have been around the national security block for at least twenty-one years Hillary Rodman Clinton (“HRC”)‘s campaign for President has been wrought with controversy. But the most telling issue is Hillary’s direct run-in with national security. This article shines a bright light on why Colin Powell said: “Don’t Pin It On Me!” Safeguard Failures Handling Classified Information Agency Heads by law have the critical responsibility to safeguard classified information. President Obama made this crystal clear in his Executive Order 13526 (12/29/09). It is quite apparent that HRC did not have adequate safeguards in place for classified...