Files made public on Monday claim that a high-ranking
State Department official offered an
FBI agent a "quid pro quo" in exchange for the agency altering a piece of information about one of the emails sent from
Clinton's private server.
Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, offered to allow the
FBI to place more agents in overseas posts in exchange for declassifying or lowering the classification of the email. The email concerned reports from
November 2012 that
Libyan police were arresting suspects following the attack on the US diplomatic compound in
Benghazi, Libya.