New Emails Confirm FBI Tried To Work Deal With State Dept To Minimize Hillary Email Scandal

www.dailywire.com ^ | February 12, 2019 | By James Barrett

[Red Badger]

Over two years after the fact, newly released FBI emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request confirm that James Comey's FBI attempted to work out a quid pro quo deal with the Obama State Department to help minimize the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal just weeks before the 2016 election.

Fox News's Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne first reported on the alleged deal back on October 15, 2016, but full confirmation did not come until this week when the government transparency watchdog group Judicial Watch released FBI communication related to the deal.

"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," Herridge and Browne reported in 2016. "This is a flashing red light of potential criminality," Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah) told Fox News at the time. "In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed," he said.

On Monday, Fox News' Gregg Re reported that over two years later, the allegation that the FBI and State Department floated a "quid pro quo" deal has now been confirmed, and it originated with the FBI:

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 effectively hide the fact that a Clinton email was classified in exchange for more legal attache positions that would benefit the FBI abroad, and allow them to send more agents to countries where the FBI's access is ordinarily restricted.

The quid pro quo would have involved the FBI providing some other public reason for withholding the Clinton email from disclosure amid a Freedom of Information Act request, besides its classification level. There are no indications the proposed arrangement ever took place.

Page, along with her lover, anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok, has been accused of "orchestrating a coordinated leak strategy aimed at harming the president," Re notes. He provides the following excerpt from an email by Page in which she cites "a discussion about potential quid pro quo arrangement":

"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."

In a notable moment highlighted by Fox, soon-to-be-fired FBI Director James Comey, who was eventually reprimanded for his botched handling of the Clinton investigation, responded to the mounting pressure surrounding the investigation by quoting the famous American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, reassuring his team, "To be great is to be misunderstood." But the evidence reveals that rather than being "misunderstood," the FBI was attempting to quietly shield Clinton and benefit its own agenda.

[Red Badger]

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[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[z3n]

You wont see this story on the nightly news

[G Larry]

Shouldn’t she be in holding cell until this is resolved?

[mort56]

Comey should be in jail along with the Clintons

[ctdonath2]

Interesting.
Trump alluded to this in his last rally. Not sure everyone caught it.

[gattaca]

bmp

[brownsfan]

And still, nothing will be done.

The permanent state is alive, well, and powerful.

[gaijin]

[RandallFlagg]

And the librats and enemedia screamed, “COLLUSION,” about President Trump for years.
If this isn’t actual collusion, I don’t know what is.

Can somebody PRETTY PLEASE set sent to prison now?!

[Reddy]

ctdonath2- Interesting! Would you mind elaborating on what was said?

[Magnum44]

COLLUSION!!!!

[treetopsandroofs]

Yes, that’s why our domestic enemies accuse Trump of it.

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[ctdonath2]

At the latest rally, the crowd chanted “lock her up!”
This time, Trump replied “That’s starting to make a lot more sense, but that’s where the collusion is”.

Struck me as an interesting phrase, as though he’s preparing to actually move against Hillary & her scandals. He had to wait for the investigation against himself to fall apart before he could make the move. Don’t know the details, just an impression - and he’s the master persuader, not me.

[Mouton]

He had to wait for the investigation against himself to fall apart before he could make the move.

She has been quiet of late.

[Reddy]

Wow- I’ve been to 2 rallies (1 pre-election and 1 post) and he never did say that.

Hopefully, justice will be served and SHE will be served (indictments!).

Seriously, the more I read about CNN being tipped off, the JBT raid on Stone, and the proof that the FBI colluded with the State Department with Zero to go easy on the Beast, the more I am enraged that our government is so out of control. It’s no longer a government Of the people, By the people, For the people. It’s like the government is run like the mafia. The government IS the mafia.

[unixfox]

The permanent state is alive, well, and powerful.

When you are a member of "The Club" laws don't apply.

[Bon mots]

These people need to start getting locked up in prison. How did Maxine Waters get away with it? Hillary?

Enough is enough.

Lock them all up!

[rx]

Shouldn’t she be in holding cell until this is resolved?

While her discussions with the DOJ did seek the benefit: "to send more agents to countries where the FBI's access is ordinarily restricted," Page didn't put this forward uniquely on her own behalf. It doesn't seem most likely that she was particularly fishing for a legal attaché position.

She deserves an indictment for this and other things, but we can be thankful she hasn't already gone to trial where a corrupt Clinton judge would have been shopped and found.