Newly released FBI documents show a senior State Department official attempted a give-and-take with an FBI agent to downgrade the classification of an email from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server.
This morning the bureau released an additional 100 pages of interview summaries and notes from its investigation of Clinton’s email practices as secretary of state. The new documents include an unnamed FBI agent’s claim that State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy pressured the FBI to declassify a Clinton email related to Benghazi in exchange for favors.
The documents purport Kennedy suggested to the unidentified FBI agent a quid pro quo to change a Benghazi-related email from “secret” to unclassified.
“[Redacted] indicated he had been contacted by Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state, who had asked his assistance in altering the email’s...
