Top State Dept Official Claims He Didn’t Know About Hillary’s Server, Busted Discussing it in Email

Senior Manager Violates Law for Clinton

Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary of Management at the State Department, has indicated that he was not aware that Clinton had a private email server at her home when she was secretary of state. That is clearly a lie, based on email that has been disclosed as the result of a Freedom of Information request.

Clinton first denied that the secret and sensitive emails existed, then claimed they were nothing more than personal correspondence, and most recently she said that there was no secret or top secret correspondence on the server. All have been proven to be lies.

Whether Kennedy knew about Clinton’s private server is a key point in the ongoing email kerfuffle. In his role, the 42-year veteran manages all facets of State Department business, including personnel matters, logistics, information technology, and budgetary issues. He is also the official who has served as the State Department’s main point of contact with Clinton, her attorneys, and her aides throughout the ongoing email scandal. He sent the letters requesting that Clinton and her aides hand their emails over to the State Department.

Given his central position at State, it would stand to reason that Kennedy should have known — and should have been informed — that Clinton was using a private email server housed in her New York residence.

As one reporter put it during Wednesday’s press briefing: “How could he not know if he’s responsible for both [Diplomatic Security] and for the people who do the technical and computer stuff at State?”

But Kennedy knowing about the server would also raise questions about why the career diplomat allowed Clinton to use an email system that was vulnerable to outside threats. Not to mention the risks posed by Clinton’s sending and receiving of classified information.

Kennedy’s name popped up on Wednesday when Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported that he was one of the State Department officials who handled 22 “top secret” emails found on Clinton’s server. Clinton and her aides, Jake Sullivan, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Philippe Reines all either sent the sensitive emails, received them, forwarded them, or commented on them.

During Wednesday’s questioning, Toner said three times that Kennedy, who frequently emailed with Clinton about work-related issues, did not know about Clinton’s private server.

“What his knowledge or what his awareness at the time — other than what he has said already, or what we have said already — which is that he was not aware of her having a private server at her home,” Toner said later in the press briefing.

But an Aug. 30, 2011 email chain obtained by TheDC last month through a FOIA lawsuit shows that Kennedy was involved in a conversation that explicitly mentioned Clinton’s server.

It is clear that a whole slew of people, including Kennedy, knew all about the server and had to be aware that this was not only illegal but extremely dangerous since the sensitive correspondence contained information about undercover agents and other secret programs and negotiations the U.S. was involved in.

Many experts have indicated the high likelihood that these emails were accessed by the Chinese and the Russians, at a minimum. But the State Department is once again stonewalling, and until someone in the Clinton cabal pays a price and goes to jail, the extent of the violations and damage may never be known. That has not happened yet, as can be seen in the following statement:

“Today the State Department indicated that comments made by Under Secretary Kennedy to the Benghazi Committee were being misconstrued. Beyond that, we are not going to speak to this further,” ‎‎a State Department official told The Daily Caller.

The United States is fast becoming a banana republic where Clinton and her ilk operate without fear of consequences. It remains to be seen if the voters will finally catch on and prevent her from becoming the leader of the free world, a prospect that should only be possible in the worst of nightmares.

Source: dailycaller.com