希拉里·克林頓電郵爭議再起
U.S. government officials are denying that any deal was proposed between the State Department and the FBI on changing the classification of a Hillary Clinton e-mail in exchange for allowing More of the bureau's agents to be posted overseas.
“We dispute the assertion that there was any kind of quid pro quo involving the case of upgrading an e-mail in exchange for additional slots for FBI officials in Baghdad,” said deputy spokesman Mark Toner.
During intense questioning by reporters at the department's daily briefing Monday, Toner called any insinuation of a proposed deal “insulting.”
According to summaries of interviews with FBI officials released earlier in the day, a bureau official told investigators that Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy pressured the FBI to declassify information in one of the emails from the private server of Clinton from the time she served as secretary of state.
Downgrading the email's classification level for archiving would have allowed it – as Kennedy is quoted as saying -- “never to be seen again.” The particular email related to the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans died in the siege, including then-Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Since the incident, conservative critics of Clinton have fiercely attacked her for allegedly ignoring security warnings and engaging in a cover-up.
Her main opponent, Republic Party nominee Donald Trump, on the social media platform Twitter Monday, characterized the newly released documents as “unbelievable” and evidence of “corruption confirmed.”美國政府官員否認國務院和聯邦調查局曾提出過任何交易，以變更希拉里·克林頓電郵的等級，來換取聯邦調查局更多特工被允許派駐海外。
國務院副發言人託納說：“我們否認任何有關交易的說法，即通過將某個電郵等級升級，來換取聯邦調查局官員派駐巴格達的新名額”。
在國務院星期一每日簡報會的記者密集提問過程中，託納稱，任何有關提出過這種交易的影射都是一種“侮辱”。
依據星期一早些時候公佈的聯邦調查局官員的面談紀要，該局一位官員對調查人員說，國務次卿帕特里克·肯尼迪曾向聯邦調查局施壓，要求解密克林頓任國務卿期間通過私營服務器所發的一份電郵的內容。
報道援引肯尼迪的話說，降低存檔的電郵分類等級，可能會使這份電郵“永遠不被看到。” 這裏所指電郵與2012年對美國駐利比亞班加西外交使團駐地的襲擊事件有關。4名美國人在圍困事件中喪生，其中包括當時的美國大使克里斯托夫·史蒂文斯。事件發生後，批評克林頓的保守派人士激烈攻擊克林頓，說她涉嫌無視安全警告，並且進行掩蓋。
希拉里·克林頓的主要對手，共和黨總統提名人唐納德·川普，星期一在社交媒體平臺推特上，稱新公佈的有關文件內容簡直“難以置信”，並說這是“確鑿的腐敗”證據。
