Posts: 46,542
Threads: 2,629
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
0
The “Quid Pro Quo” Scandal seems to have been the FBI's idea, not the State Department's. Let alone Clinton's. Republicans can't see the forest for the shriveled little stumps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/us/pol...il.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...6824052762&tid=ss_tw
Posts: 22,262
Threads: 2,504
Joined: May 2025
Virtually every Clinton "scandal!" withers under the slightest real scrutiny.
The few others involve things first done by Republicans, only more egregiously.
Posts: 11,076
Threads: 820
Joined: Jul 2019
Reputation:
0
Except that the request originated with the Clinton coven....
Patrick F. Kennedy, a senior State Department official, called him in spring 2015 looking for help in getting the F.B.I. to agree not to classify the disputed email.
Posts: 22,262
Threads: 2,504
Joined: May 2025
A former F.B.I. official at the center of the latest controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private emails acknowledged on Tuesday that an offer to swap favors with a State Department counterpart on an email classification issue had originated with him.
“I’m the one that threw that out there,” Mr. McCauley said of the offer.
[Later,] Mr. McCauley said, he abandoned any thought of exchanging favors and called Mr. Kennedy immediately to tell him that he could not help.
His account was largely consistent with that of Mr. Kennedy.
(fizzle)
Posts: 54,603
Threads: 1,937
Joined: May 2025
Reputation:
1
There will be numerous House committees looking into this scandal - for years.
Posts: 22,262
Threads: 2,504
Joined: May 2025
[FBI agent] Mr. McCauley saw the episode in much the same way.
Mr. Trump and other Republicans, he said, “are grasping at straws.”
“There was no political motivation in this at all,” he added.
Posts: 11,076
Threads: 820
Joined: Jul 2019
Reputation:
0
pdq wrote:
A former F.B.I. official at the center of the latest controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private emails acknowledged on Tuesday that an offer to swap favors with a State Department counterpart on an email classification issue had originated with him.
“I’m the one that threw that out there,” Mr. McCauley said of the offer.
[Later,] Mr. McCauley said, he abandoned any thought of exchanging favors and called Mr. Kennedy immediately to tell him that he could not help.
His account was largely consistent with that of Mr. Kennedy.
(fizzle)
Fizzled minds trying to ignore the obvious, grasping at straws, the terms of the trade came from FBI,
BUT the first call, a request " F.B.I. to agree not to classify the disputed email" was initiated by Clinton flunkies.
No matter how desperately you try to wash it, pdq, it is still Clinton's idea not to classify the classified material, to wipe her record....
Posts: 7,497
Threads: 326
Joined: Apr 2022
pdq wrote:
Virtually every Clinton "scandal!" withers under the slightest real scrutiny.
I guess I may have been prejudiced by the GOP slander campaign after all.
As I see each "scandal" knocked down by hard facts, it's starting to look like HRC may be a saint.
Posts: 22,262
Threads: 2,504
Joined: May 2025
[Long-time non-political Senior State Department official Kennedy] said he did not believe the information should be classified as “secret,” but should instead be redacted, or blacked out, on the grounds that it contained information related to a continuing investigation.
In the end, the State Department accepted the bureau’s argument and released the email with a sentence redacted as secret because it related to the F.B.I.’s Clinton email investigation.
Got that? The email was classified as "secret" because it was related to the email investigation.
And around and around we go....
Posts: 11,076
Threads: 820
Joined: Jul 2019
Reputation:
0
pdq wrote:
Got that? The email was classified as "secret" because it was related to the email investigation.
And around and around we go....
Yes you are. Round and round, anything but the point being raised.
We are not arguing why it was classified. 99% of classified stuff should never have been in the first place.
The fact is that was classified material.
Poor pdq, trying to twist his way out of the original question, who initiated the call?
Clinton camp....
What did they want?
Sweep the classified category under the table....
How did it go?
FBI pulled their offer to trade, off the table as soon as they realized the reason for it....
Mr. McCauley said he had quickly reversed himself, however, after calling another F.B.I. official and learning that the email in question involved the Benghazi attack — a political cudgel for Republicans against Mrs. Clinton.
At that point, Mr. McCauley said, he abandoned any thought of exchanging favors and called Mr. Kennedy immediately to tell him that he could not help. “It was off the table; the quid pro quo was not even close to being considered,” Mr. McCauley said.
His account was largely consistent with that of Mr. Kennedy
How did you do pdq?
Your pathetic attempt to twist yourself out of a losing position, completely fizzled, again....
|
