Politics

FBI: Top State official offered "quid pro quo" over Clinton emails

The FBI released on Monday another 100 pages from the investigation into the private email server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State, with some of the documents laying bare a battle between the State Department and FBI over the handling of some of Clinton’s possibly classified emails.

Maybe the most interesting items involves a dispute with Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy, whom the FBI says pressured agents to change the classification of a document from “classified” to “unclassified.”

The document claims Kennedy offering a “quid pro quo” to the FBI for the classification change, saying the State