7th floor group
 7th floor group  (Deep state milieu?)   | |
|---|---|
 The 7th floor of the Harry S. Truman Building | |
| Extinction | 17 February 2017 |
| Headquarters | 7th Floor, Harry S. Truman Building, Washington DC, USA |
| Interests | censorship |
| Member of | Donald Trump/Conspiracy theories |
| Membership | • Hillary Clinton? •  Jonathan Finer• Heather Higginbottom •  Julia Frifield•  Roberta Jacobson•  Patrick Kennedy•  John Kerry•  Cheryl D. Mills•  Julissa Reynoso•  Jennifer Stout•  Jacob Sullivan•  Lona Valmoro |
| A set of officials who meet at the top of the US State Department and discuss the control of information. Termed by the FBI a "shadow government". | |
The 7th Floor Group was a group of top US State Department officials who met regularly on the 7th floor of the Harry S. Truman Building in Washington, DC. The FBI referred to the group as a "shadow government" inside the State Department, which attracted the attention of commercially-controlled media.[1] The group appears to have formed around Hillary Clinton, although no direct evidence has yet emerged to tie her to the group. Most if not all remaining members had their employment terminated on 17 February 2017.[2]
Contents
Official narrative
Wikipedia had a page on this group for a few days, but it was deleted on 8 November 2016.[3] In spite of the FBI's reference to it as a "shadow government" it was not deemed a "non-notable conspiracy theory" with a "lack of reliable secondary sources".[4]
Exposure
The group was exposed on 17 October 2016 by a reference in an FBI investigation report arising from the Hillary Clinton email controversy. Interest has been heightened by the fact that FBI documents refer to it as a "shadow government" inside the US State Department.[1] As of November 2016, only one other reference to the group is known in the public record, an email by Roberta S. Jacobson to her "7th floor colleagues."[5]
Activities
The 7th Floor Group met on Wednesday afternoons and discussed FOIA requests and the Congressional record in order to contain particularly sensitive information, and how best to release other information.[6] CNBC reported in October 2016 that the group had "argued for a Clinton document release to be conducted all at once "for coordination purposes" instead of on a rolling basis as would normally be the case".[7]
Censorship of official reports
A 2015 report for The Washington Examiner was entitled "State Department Inspector General officials edited out passages of a high-profile report in [February] 2013 that could have embarrassed Hillary Clinton just days before she quit President Obama's Cabinet." This compared a report published in 2013 with earlier drafts that were provided by whistleblower Richard Higbie. The Examiner states that "The unexplained gaps in the final version, and the removal of passages that would have damaged the State Department, call into question the independence of Harold Geisel, who was State's temporary inspector general throughout Clinton's four years at the head of the department."[8]
One such passage, present in the draft but not in the final report states that "Sources reported that a senior '7th Floor' Department official ordered [diplomatic security] to stop the investigation of an ambassador accused of pedophilia, and another such senior official had [diplomatic security] stop an investigation of an ambassador-designate".[8]
Facilities
The Secretary's suite was a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility which also had a DSS security detachment outside of the office.
Attendance
Meetings are attended by the Secretary of State John Kerry, Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer Stout, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Kennedy, Assistant Secretary Julia Frifield, and unnamed members of the Office of the Legal Adviser.[9]
Hillary Clinton is not known to attend the meetings, but this is a reasonable inference from the fact that some names were redacted from the FBI document, and the fact that her office was also located on the 7th Floor of the US State Department Headquarters, where she is known to have met with her top advisers, including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.[10]
Purge
The group appears to have been disbanded by Donald Trump's administration. On 17 February 2017, CBS reported that "Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed."[2]
Known members
12 of the 13 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Hillary Clinton | “Too big to jail” |
| Jonathan Finer | US deep state actor, Bilderberger, 7th Floor Group, CFR, friend of UK and US deep state functionaries |
| Julia Frifield | US/Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs under Barack Obama. |
| Heather Higginbottom | 7th floor group deep state operative |
| Roberta Jacobson | 7th Floor Group member whose appointment as ambassador to Mexico reportedly "took weeks of backroom dealing" |
| Patrick Kennedy | 7th floor group diplomat |
| John Kerry | US Skull and Bones DSO, in Jeffrey Epstein's Black book ... |
| Cheryl Mills | Chief of staff for Hillary Clinton. |
| Julissa Reynoso | 7th floor group |
| Jennifer Stout | US deep state functionary and member of the 7th Floor Group |
| Jacob Sullivan | USDSO and member of the 7th floor group |
| Lona Valmoro | Member of the 7th floor group and the "main scheduler" for Hillary Clinton |
References
- ↑ a b Rosenfeld, Everett (17 October 2016). "New FBI release on Clinton email probe refers to 'Shadow Government'".Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ a b http://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-layoffs-under-rex-tillerson-being-carried-out/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=7th_floor_group
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/7th_Floor_Group
- ↑ https://www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/752
- ↑ https://wearechange.org/who-wikipedia-fbi-deletes-7th-floor-group/
- ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/fbi-releases-100-new-pages-on-clinton-email-probe.html
- ↑ a b http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillarys-officials-cut-criticisms-out-of-state-dept.-reports/article/2565827
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