The White House on Monday dismissed Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s criticism that there may have been a criminal “quid pro quo” between a senior State Department official and the FBI over the classification of Hillary Clinton’s email.
Chaffetz and other Republicans say new FBI documents released Monday confirm that the State Department and the FBI at least talked about a deal to declassify some of the classified information found in Clinton’s emails, in return for allowing the FBI to put some staff on the ground in Iraq. But Earnest deflected questions about that finding, and repeatedly referred to State Department and FBI denials of the quid-pro-quo charges.
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