Yes folks, it's a vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast left-wing conspiracy that's protecting Crooked Hillary and trying to get her and her crooked cronies into the White House. Basically, the "reclassified" email would have been "classified" to the bowels of the State Department sub-basement, never to be seen again.




'Quid pro quo': FBI files show top State official tried to 'influence' bureau on Clinton emails

10/17/16

A 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.

Fox News first reported Saturday that the FBI interview summaries and notes, known as 302s, contained allegations of a quid pro quo. Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who initially told Fox News of the claim, called it a “flashing red light of potential criminality.”

Documents published Monday morning confirm the account. Notes from an interview with an unnamed FBI official reveal the State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy tried to horse-trade with the FBI, offering additional slots for the bureau overseas if they would de-classify a particular email marked “SECRET.”

According to the documents, an unnamed individual said he was “pressured” 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’s classification in exchange for a ‘quid pro quo,’” the 302 states. “[Redacted] advised that in exchange for marking the email unclassified, STATE would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more Agents in countries where they are presently forbidden.”

At a subsequent meeting at the State Department regarding the classification review of Clinton’s materials where Kennedy presided, someone asked whether any of the emails in question were classified.

“Making eye contact with [redacted] KENNEDY remarked, ‘Well, we’ll see,’” the document says. The official, according to one account, was “attempting to influence the FBI to change its markings.”

Kennedy allegedly asked at that point who else he could speak with and was referred to Michael Steinbach, then a top official with the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Kennedy “continued to pressure the FBI to change the classified markings on the email to unclassified,” the document says. “STEINBACH refused to do so.”

The document says Kennedy then asked about whether the FBI would be making a public statement and was told they would not. Shortly afterward, the story about the email contents broke in the press and Clinton publicly denied having sent classified emails on her server.

In the wake of the document release, House Oversight Committee Chairman Chaffetz and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., have written letters to Secretary of State John Kerry and Inspector General Steve Linick seeking Kennedy’s removal and a misconduct investigation.

"We find Under Secretary Kennedy's actions extremely disturbing. Those who receive classified intelligence should not barter in it - that is reckless behavior with our nation's secrets,” they said in a statement. “Someone who would try to get classification markings doctored should not continue serving in the State Department or retain access to classified information. Therefore, President Obama and Secretary Kerry should immediately remove Under Secretary Kennedy pending a full investigation."

State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Monday denied the “quid pro quo” allegation.

At a press briefing, he said, “[Kennedy] contacted the FBI to understand what their rationale was for requesting an upgrade of this particular information.”

A spokesperson at the FBI provided a lengthy statement to Fox News on Saturday night ahead of the document release -- disputing Chaffetz's characterization and stating that, while the conversation did happen, the two issues discussed were not connected.

The FBI account is as follows:

“The FBI determined that one such email was classified at the Secret level. A senior State Department official requested the FBI re-review that email to determine whether it was in fact classified or whether it might be protected from release under a different FOIA exemption. A now-retired FBI official, who was not part of the subsequent Clinton investigation, told the State Department official that they would look into the matter. Having been previously unsuccessful in attempts to speak with the senior State official, during the same conversation, the FBI official asked the State Department official if they would address a pending, unaddressed FBI request for space for additional FBI employees assigned abroad. Following the call, the FBI official consulted with a senior FBI executive responsible for determining the classification of the material and determined the email was in fact appropriately classified at the Secret level.”

According to the FBI, “The classification of the email was not changed, and it remains classified today. Although there was never a quid pro quo, these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review."

The FBI documents fueled GOP allegations about Clinton’s handling of classified material.

“These documents further demonstrate Secretary Clinton’s complete disregard for properly handling classified information. This is exactly why I called on DNI Clapper to deny her access to classified information,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement. “Moreover, a senior State Department official’s attempt to pressure the FBI to hide the extent of this mishandling bears all the signs of a cover-up.”

Kennedy appears in other sections of the FBI documents as well. According to another FBI interview, Kennedy wanted some information changed to an obscure code known as B9 to “allow him to archive the document in the basement of DoS [Department of State] never to be seen again.”

The State Department inspector general also told the FBI Kennedy’s “tone and tenor were definitely not positive when dealing” with their office.

 

Do you know that after a week and change of straight potty talk, CNN has Crooked Hillary only 4 points ahead in battleground states, pretty much right back where she was before the latest three-front full on assault?

Up here we have the Boston Globe speculating that Trump supporters could turn violent WHEN they lose, and this story runs on the very same day that Democrat brown-shirt-fascists firebomb a Trump campaign headquarters.

And now, from the White House, that's right, from all the way at the top, we have that piece of shit Josh Ernest asserting that Trumpwas wasted on cocaine on the past two debates. (I guess Josh would know; he works for the expert, Choom Boy.)

These outrages are filtering down to the common people. It's the exact same thing that happened to England on the BREXIT vote. The polls were all wrong on that one, and I think they're all wrong here, too. I think Trump is much higher in the polls than anyone is giving him credit for.

 

Gee, seems the libstream media must have some knowledge of a fait accompli, huh? Things that make ya go, "hmmmm..."

And the White House is starting to remind me of that old computer programming mantra GIGO. When you put garbage into the White House, you get garbage out of the White House.

 

GIGO, indeed.

Also, WYSIWYG.

 

The FBI has NO jurisdiction outside the united states. The State Department can't grant them slots where they can't go. Only if a country ask for their help in investigating a crime.

 

Seems they have no jurisdiction within the United States also.

 

Isn't it about time one of the hare-brained members makes a comment about all the Clinton sheep suddenly going silent?

 

I know it gets tedious debunking all M4M's paid for false propaganda PR hack talking points of the day but come on guys we still have to do it.

Even if it just to point out there was no offer from the State Department. The discussion about more FBI in foreign countries was brought up by an FBI agent. And the memo in question that was later classified that the State Department objected to remains classified.

No quid pro quo just more right wing false propaganda lies that M4M gets paid to try and promote.

 

Agreed.

This is nothing short of some serious dirty politics.

The FBI is in the Clinton pockets, the DOJ is in the Clinton pockets, the Sate Dept. is in the Clinton pockets, the state run leftist media is in the Clinton pockets and the White House is pushing for all of this to happen.

 

Actually, no influence peddling was needed here, Bill had already taken care of this on the plane with Loretta, then Hillary herself doubled-down on it with Comey, with the help of Obama.

All of this only means one thing...Clinton is too incompetent AND corrupt to hold the office of POTUS.

The people know how corrupt Clinton is, even when the state run leftist media protects her, the deplorable are on to the leftist/Clinton tactics.

 

Another Trump lie bites the dust.

The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russian uranium deal

Look it up on Washington Post

 

The Russian Uranium mining deal...............Stumbler presents the Amazon Newspaper new version.....

Here is another left wing paper---NY Times.....

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And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One,
Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank
with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.



Frank Giustra, right, a mining financier,
has donated $31.3 million to the foundation run
by former President Bill Clinton, left.

======================

The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added.

When the Uranium One deal was approved, the geopolitical backdrop was far different from today’s. The Obama administration was seeking to “reset” strained relations with Russia. The deal was strategically important to Mr. Putin, who shortly after the Americans gave their blessing sat down for a staged interview with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko. “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves,” Mr. Kiriyenko told Mr. Putin.

Uranium investors’ efforts to buy mining assets in Kazakhstan and the United States led to a takeover bid by a Russian state-owned energy company. The investors gave millions to the Clinton Foundation over the same period, while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s office was involved with approving the Russian deal.

SEPTEMBER 2005

Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining financier, wins a major uranium deal in Kazakhstan for his company,
UrAsia, days after visiting the country with former President Bill Clinton.


2006

Mr. Giustra donates $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.

FEBRUARY 2007

UrAsia merges with a South African mining company and assumes the name Uranium One.
In the next two months, the company expands into the United States.

JUNE 2008

Negotiations begin for an investment in Uranium One by the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom.

2008 - 2010

Uranium One and former UrAsia investors make $8.65 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Uranium One investors stand to profit on a Rosatom deal.

JUNE 2009

Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ takes a 17 percent ownership stake in Uranium One.


2010- 2011

Investors give millions more in donations to the Clinton Foundation.

JUNE 2010

Rosatom seeks majority ownership of Uranium One, pending approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, of which the State Department is a member.

Rosatom says it does not plan to increase its stake in Uranium One or to take the company private.

JUNE 29, 2010
Bill Clinton is paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin
that assigned a buy rating to Uranium One stock.

OCTOBER 2010

Rosatom’s majority ownership approved by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

JANUARY 2013

Rosatom takes full control of Uranium One and takes it private.


As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

The American Embassy ultimately reported to the secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton. Though the Clarke cable was copied to her, it was given wide circulation, and it is unclear if she would have read it; the Clinton campaign did not address questions about the cable.

What is clear is that the embassy acted, with the cables showing that the energy officer met with Kazakh officials to discuss the issue on June 10 and 11.

Three days later, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom completed a deal for 17 percent of Uranium One. And within a year, the Russian government substantially upped the ante, with a generous offer to shareholders that would give it a 51 percent controlling stake. But first, Uranium One had to get the American government to sign off on the deal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...s-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

 

NO NO NO!
Hillary didn't sell our uranium to Russia!
She was doing her job as Secretary of State.
All this nonsense is just more Republican Hate Machine rhetoric

Just like that nonsense about Bill "stopping by" Lynch's private jet in Phoenix only days before Lynch decided on potential charges for Hillary.
All they talked about was the grandkids, golf, and family.
Nothing to see here folks!

Either the Clinton's are dumber than Trump
or
The Smartest crooks in Washington

Take your pick

 

Hey Shootersa let's see if you know what you are talking about this time. Can any of this uranium and or yellow cake be exported from the US?

 

So, if someone makes an offer to buy your house and you don't like the offer and say "no", does that mean no offer was made?

 

Her,her maiden name, and everything that goes with it is a piece of shit....
end of story.