Panic levels are increasing by the hour.
Good, good.
Please continue, Q.
Looking back through old digs in the dig folder here.
Found some interdasting dirt on Hillary's "7th Floor Group" from January 2018.
Just ignore the sauce if it bothers you; it's only citing the FBI Vault drop relevant:
https://www.infowars.com/fbi-hillarys-shadow-government-buried-email-scandal/
"…That memo, dated Aug. 8, 2015, (FBI Vault, Hillary R. Clinton, Part 4, pp. 53-57), contains the following paragraph that makes explicit reference to the “Shadow Government” constituted within the Department of State to protect Sec. Clinton from potentially criminal mishandling of classified information.
The paragraph in question reads as follows:
There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as “The 7th Floor Group” or “the Shadow Government.” This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries. The known regular attendees included Jonathan FINER, Jennifer STOUT, Deputy Chief of Staff, Heather HIGGINBOTTOM, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources KENNEDY, Julia FRIFIELD, Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, [REDACTED] Office of Legal Adviser, [REDACTED] Office of the Legal Adviser overseeing STATE’S [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]."
(to be continued)
(sauces for following were multiple web pages, the URLs of which weren't preserved in my Word file - sorry)
Of the 7th Floor Group, Patrick Kennedy's past got my attention before the others:
Patrick Francis Kennedy (not to be confused with Patrick Joseph Kennedy, of the JFK/RFK family): Kerry’s Deputy Secretary of State. From: Chicago. Education: Georgetown. 68 years old, very extensive resume in State Dept/Diplomatic Corps.
A. In 2007, Patrick F. Kennedy chaired an investigation into the behavior of Blackwater Worldwide, following the Nisour Square shooting.
B. During the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy ordered that State Department employees in Europe be barred from attending Senator Barack Obama's speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008, to ensure they displayed political neutrality. Kennedy labeled Obama's visit as a partisan political activity.
C. Kennedy's role in diplomatic security decisions has come under scrutiny from politicians since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi in 2012. Kennedy testified to the House Oversight Committee on October 10, 2012, about the death of Chris Stevens. He testified that, after the October 2011 fall of Gaddafi, the government of Libya was in flux, and that Stevens first arrived in Benghazi "during the height of the revolution", which occurred between February 17 and October 23, 2011, "when the city was the heart of the opposition to Colonel Qadhafi and the rebels there were fighting for their lives." At that time he was Special Representative to the National Transitional Council. Stevens returned to Libya as ambassador in June 2012, and was killed on September 11 of that year.
“Ambassador Stevens understood that the State Department must operate in many places where the U.S. military cannot or does not, where there are no other boots on the ground, where there are serious threats to our security. And he understood that the new Libya was being born in Benghazi and that it was critical that the United States have an active presence there. That is why Ambassador Stevens stayed in Benghazi during those difficult days. And it’s why he kept returning as the Libyan people began their difficult transition to democracy. He knew his mission was vital to U.S. interests and values, and was an investment that would pay off in a strong partnership with a free Libya.”
The Republican minority on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence alleged that Kennedy, as Under Secretary for Management, failed to approve requests for additional security in Benghazi and Tripoli, and failed to implement recommendations regarding high-risk diplomatic posts that had been issued after the bombings of embassies in 1998. In fact, the facility was classified as a U.S. Special Mission, which was then a novel category, that required a waiver which "legally allowed the CIA annex to be housed in a location about one mile from the U.S. special mission."
D. On June 10, 2013, CBS News reported that a memo from an official in the State Department inspector general’s office alleged that the then-current ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, was ditching his security detail to engage prostitutes and underage children , and further alleged that Patrick F. Kennedy had killed the original investigation in order to protect Ambassador Gutman and maybe others.[9] On June 11, 2013, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed that the allegation regarding Kennedy was under active investigation by an independent inspector general.[10][11][12] On June 21, 2013, the White House announced Denise Bauer as the new nominee to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
E. On October 17, 2016, the FBI released interviews related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the interviews alleges that Patrick F. Kennedy "pressured" the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to declassify an email from Hillary Clinton's private server in exchange for a "quid pro quo" of placing more agents in certain countries. The FBI stated that the email's classification status was re-reviewed and remained unchanged and denied quid pro quo accusations. The State Department called the allegations "inaccurate" and maintained that Kennedy was trying to "understand" the FBI's classification process.
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https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-32-of-32/view#document/p146
The memo also suggests that Patrick F. Kennedy, a Clinton “fixer” within the State Department pressured the FBI to change Clinton emails marked “classified” to “unclassified.”
The memo dated Aug. 8, 2015, continues:
"In late April 2015, IPS officials completed the formal review of the Benghazi-related Congressional inquiry. All materials were ready for release at that time. The CIA provided redactions [REDACTED] but none were deemed a B(1) exemption. Most of the items with CIS redactions were emails from Sidney BLUMENTHAL. One was deemed classified according to the FBI and KENNEDY held a closed-door meeting attended by the FBI’s [REDACTED] and IPS’ [REDACTED] among others. In that KENNEDY held a closed-door meeting attended by the FBI’s [REDACTED] among others. In that meeting, KENNEDY asked [REDACTED] to change the FBI’s B(1) upgrade classification, but [REDACTED] did not change the FBI’s stance. On May 22 (2015), it was decided by the IPS team they would keep the upgrade of the one FBI-related email and the IPS officials sent David KENDALL, Attorney, Williams & Connolly, LLC, a letter informing him of the results."
Kennedy seems to have been a particularly wretched combination of Clinton fixer and all-around incompetent.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/patrick-kennedy-clintons-defender-state-department/
"January 26, 2017 4:55 pm
Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's outgoing undersecretary for management, had a disastrous final four years in the post, as he was blamed for the failure to protect American lives in Benghazi, Libya, and was caught protecting Hillary Clinton during the investigation into her unauthorized use of a private email server.
Kennedy, who was forced to resign by the Donald Trump administration on Thursday, has held the undersecretary post for the past nine years—and his tenure has not gone smoothly.
His most public connection to controversy came during an investigation into the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi. Investigators faulted Kennedy for deciding to reduce the number of security personnel present in Libya prior to the attack.
Due to his role in Libya operations, Kennedy was called to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2013 and then again before the House Benghazi Committee early last year.
Republicans such as CIA Director Mike Pompeo charged that Kennedy was hiding information during his testimony to protect the State Department.
"When the Benghazi committee interviewed him, he was a deft witness—he knew what to say and what not to say," said Pompeo, who was at the time a member of the House of Representatives. "Kennedy is the quintessential bureaucrat."
Kennedy's attempts to shield his bosses at the State Department were uncovered again during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server last year.
Kennedy was responsible for the State Department's records and information technology during the four years Hillary Clinton used the server, and would have been responsible for approving Clinton's unauthorized email arrangement.
It was revealed last year that he worked to help Clinton emerge unscathed from the scandal. An FBI official said Kennedy repeatedly "pressured" the bureau to declassify a sensitive email about the Benghazi attack that Clinton sent using her unsecure email server.
During the presidential campaign, Trump pointed to Kennedy's actions as evidence of "collusion between the FBI, Department of Justice, and the State Department to try and make Hillary Clinton look like an innocent person when she's guilty of very high crimes."
Pompeo agreed that Kennedy was "protecting" Clinton.
"It is clear that Kennedy was protecting himself and his boss, Secretary Clinton, from any responsibility for the massive security failures related to Benghazi or for anything to do with Secretary Clinton's homebrew server," Pompeo told Foreign Policy.
Despite his many failures, some former State Department officials are treating Kennedy's ouster as a "big loss."
"These retirements are a big loss," David Wade, Secretary of State John Kerry's chief of staff, told the Washington Post in reference to Kennedy and other resignations. "They leave a void. These are very difficult people to replace."
"Difficult to replace"? Fucking kidding me? These freaks will stay in denial and coverup mode until their last breath. Incompetence and corruption are 100% fine in their books.
He was screwing up at State, and then compounding the error by weaseling the FBI to cover up for him. The FBI agent wasn't so much corrupt as just ALSO stupid, not realizing the full meaning of what was happening.
"THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID"
Crap
"I typed so much text"
At any rate, the 7th Floor Group apparently had Patrick Kennedy for their XO.
He was incompetent, but apparently also tasked with covering for Hillary's incompetence as well as the incompetence of the rest of her State department.
No damn wonder Hillary refused to have an Inspector General during her term as Secretary of State.
She didn't want anybody discovering just what a shitshow it was.
Kennedy was only one of her senior lieutenants, but he was the one who gave the order to reduce security at the embassy in Benghazi. People died as a result.
It remains illegal to use the classification process to cover incompetence, those involved from embarrassment, or to cover illegal acts.
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There are more dirty people in the 7th Floor Group, including one who bounced neatly into the job of Global Policy Advisor to Snapchat. Great, huh? I'm sure it was her shining skill set.