State Department officials defense of Clinton email scandal becomes incoherent

Washington Examiner:

A State Department official who was embroiled in a number of controversies under Hillary Clinton is reportedly attempting to influence the handling of his former boss' emails.

Patrick Kennedy, State's undersecretary for management, visited Capitol Hill in July to argue that an April 2011 email sent from longtime aide Huma Abedin to Clinton contained no classified information, according to a report by Fox News.

Abedin's message touched off the present FBI probe into Clinton's email practices, as three separate intelligence agencies — the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — each laid claim to information in the email.

Kennedy demanded the conversation about Abedin's email be held in a special, secure facility for classified information that is commonly known as a SCIF despite his claim that the Abedin email was unclassified.  (Emphasis added.)

The document in question apparently discussed Christopher Stevens — then a special envoy at the State Department — and his movements in Benghazi as he and his staff prepared for a possible evacuation.

The email contained intelligence passed along by "the Brits" that detailed the movements of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, then the dictator of Libya.

It also included intelligence from the Pentagon's Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, that laid out Gaddafi's gains in the city of Ajdabiyah.

Kennedy reportedly used an article in the Irish Times, which described the violence in Ajdabiyah, as evidence that the email revealed nothing that should have been classified.
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 Kennedy is also accused of trying to influence the inspector generals investigation into the email controlversy through his friendship with the head of the office.  This particular email could be one of the reasons why people like Abedin have hired defense lawyers.