FBI Scrambled To Respond To Hillary Clinton Lawyer Amid Weiner Laptop Review Newly Released Emails

(Fox News) Gregg Re February 12 2019 Newly released internal FBI emails showed the agencys highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clintons lawyer in the days prior to the 2016 presidential election on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails found on former Rep. Anthony Weiners laptop. The trove of documents turned over by the FBI in response to a lawsuit by the transparency group Judicial Watch also included discussions by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page concerning a potential quid pro quo between the State Department and the FBI -- in which the FBI would agree to downgrade the classification level of a Clinton email in exchange for more legal attache positions that would benefit the agency abroad. There was no indication such a quid pro quo ever took place. And in the face of mounting criticism aimed at the FBI the documents revealed that Comey quoted the 19th century poet Ralph Waldo Emerson by assuring his subordinates To be great is to be misunderstood. The FBI did not respond to Fox News request for comment on the released emails.