The Senate committee investigators have learned about the existence of a document indicating that Lynch may have assured the Clinton campaign political director she wouldn’t let the FBI “go too far” in investigating Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified documents on an unsecured email server.
At last year’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican David Trott of Michigan slammed Lynch for failing to recuse herself from the Clinton probe after her controversial airport meeting with Bill Clinton.
Then, referring to rumors of her possibly staying on in a hypothetical Hillary administration, he asked if Lynch had met with anyone on Hillary’s staff during the yearlong investigation, to which she replied: “I have not spoken to anyone on either the campaign or transition or any staff members affiliated with them.”
Unhappily for the hapless former AG, the committee has since learned the FBI has obtained a document in which a Democrat operative claims that Lynch told Clinton political director Amanda Renteria in private that the Justice Department “would not push too deeply” into the Clinton email probe. Renteria has been asked to testify before the Senate committee.
Another potential hole in the Lynch story is a report that she told then-FBI Director James Comey to leave her office when he confronted her with the purported document showing her contact with the Clinton campaign.
The committee also wants to know if Lynch or any of her aides were in contact with former DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz regarding the Clinton email investigation, according to a three-page list of questions that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein recently sent to Lynch at her New York apartment.”
Also on the docket for investigation is Lynch’s bizarre explanation of the meeting with Bill Clinton. Surely, the 30-minute encounter went well beyond discussing “golf and grandchildren” as Lynch lamely claimed. Bill Clinton must have dominated the conversation since Lynch has no grandchildren.
Although Lynch’s lawyer claims she will “fully cooperate” with the committee, it will be difficult for her to claim Fifth Amendment protection. More likely, she’ll just attempt to stonewall. Of course, the race card is always available if she gets desperate.
During last year’s House hearing, dozens of times she used the “I don’t recall” response to probing questions.
. . . the committee determined that she either “refused to answer or give appropriate response” no fewer than 74 times during the four-hour hearing.”
With the help of the new information, Senator Grassley may have better luck drawing information out of the former AG, whose overall actions have made Senator Feinstein say they made her feel “queasy.”
Source: New York Post
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Belongs in jail
Offer her immunity to testify against Hillary. It would be worth it.
Arrest
you know it took 2 years before the congress was even looking into Nixon and Clinton in his 2nd term….there is a ton of information and it’s going to take time to shift through.
New holes? Same old holes have been there since day one! DOH! smh
The idiocy of Donald Trump Jr. may end up doing more than merely taking down his father. It may end up taking down an entire political party. Junior’s meeting with a Kremlin representative has been identified as the epicenter of the Trump-Russia plot to rig the election for Donald Trump. And now it very much appears that the head of the Republican Party at the time was also in attendance at the meeting between Junior and the Kremlin.
It turns out Reince Priebus was also at Trump Tower in New York on the day Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with the Russian government representative. ProPublica dug up old documentation confirming that Priebus arrived at the building just before the meeting. At the time, Priebus was the head of the Republican Party in his role as RNC Chair.
If Priebus was indeed in on the meeting, and wasn’t merely at Trump Tower to buy a hot dog, it means that the Republican Party – or at least its leader – was officially in on the plot with Russia and the Trump campaign to rig the election. This was all the way back on June 9th of 2016, when Donald Trump was first settling into having won the nomination. And the RNC Chair appears to have been in on it.
This leads to the question of who else among the Republican Party leadership was aware at the time that the Donald Trump campaign and Russia were plotting to rig the general election from almost the moment Trump had seized the Republican nomination. Are we to believe that RNC Chair Reince Priebus was in on the plot, but that Republican House leader Paul Ryan and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell weren’t? Priebus was an errand boy for Ryan and McConnell at the time. When this is all said and done, the entirely GOP leadership might well go down for treason as well.
They have proved that all they have to do is say they can’t remember what happened. And the weak people we put into office will accept it as fact.
Who cares! They will not hang one of their own out to dry! Doesn’t matter what side of the fence they play on, politicians will never turn on their own. Nothing will come on any of this so please, stop wasting our time and money. Just get on with life and understand, we now know what crooks all politicians are!