Comey: Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation

The Weekly Standard ^ | June 8, 2017 | By Mark Hemingway

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There's one other very interesting thing about this exchange. Lynch's improper behavior here was previously reported, via anonymous sources, back in April in the New York Times:

At the meeting, everyone agreed that Mr. Comey should not reveal details about the Clinton investigation. But Ms. Lynch told him to be even more circumspect: Do not even call it an investigation, she said, according to three people who attended the meeting. Call it a "matter."

Ms. Lynch reasoned that the word "investigation" would raise other questions: What charges were being investigated? Who was the target? But most important, she believed that the department should stick by its policy of not confirming investigations.

It was a by-the-book decision. But Mr. Comey and other F.B.I. officials regarded it as disingenuous in an investigation that was so widely known. And Mr. Comey was concerned that a Democratic attorney general was asking him to be misleading and line up his talking points with Mrs. Clinton's campaign, according to people who spoke with him afterward.

As the meeting broke up, George Z. Toscas, a national security prosecutor, ribbed Mr. Comey. "I guess you're the Federal Bureau of Matters now," Mr. Toscas said, according to two people who were there.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Comey has been doing a lot of leaking.

[rdl6989]

Lock her up, Comey too.

[circlecity]

"Comey has been doing a lot of leaking."

Yep. In the words of Don Corleone: "But I didn't know until this day it was Comey all along."

[I want the USA back]

We know that, but she has protective pigmentation, and Trump doesn’t.

[SMARTY]

“Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation”

No one on earth could think of that as ‘news’

[Cowboy Bob]

Ms. Lynch reasoned that the word "investigation" would raise other questions:

I don't think Ms. Lynch has the brain power to reason. She was told what to do and what to say.

[shanover]

Nothing new and everybody knew all of this. What are we going to do about it? I suspect nothing as the rule of law is dead in this country and we will be running around in a circle getting nothing done for the country.

[Lexington Green]

“Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation”

It was Comey’s duty to arrest Lynch on-the-spot. He is an accessory to obstruction of justice.

[Baynative]

But, surely this is what Washington considers to be a good attempt at influence.

And besides, this influence worked!

[t4texas]

Well it’s about time the tables begin to turn. After playing defense for too long it’s now time to go on offense and prove the old football maxim:

The best defense is a good offense.

[Daffynition]

Calling the Killery unlawful fiasco a *matter* is like when the Brits call the Northern Ireland murdering *the Troubles*.

[Slyfox]

The speed to which the media and all the leftists wave that fan of #fakenews and Russia in our faces points to only one thing - they are obfuscating for Hillary big league.

At some point someone is going to cry "Uncle" and it won't be Trump.

[tumblindice]

Yeah, sure she did. But she’s a Democrat so it don’t matter.

[Robert357]

Obviously there are obstructions of justice and then there are not obstructions of justice. I guess the ground rule is Democrats are never guilty of anything and Republicans are always presumed guilty until proven beyond a shadow of doubt.

One day Karma will visit the Democrats and they will all end up in orange jump suits.

[Red Badger]

She didn’t ‘attempt’, she actually did.....................

[mass55th]

She pressured him, but his “gut feeling” was not to write himself a memo about it to protect himself from any future trouble. Makes his comments about his reasons for writing his Trump meeting notes seems pretty pathetic.

[Steely Tom]

They have decided that they won’t be able to get Trump, therefore they are inoculating Lynch and Hillary against further prosecution. They will say since we let Trump off, you must let Hillary off.

[Williams]

If the attorney general was working with a criminal suspect, wasn’t that a big deal?

[RayChuang88]

In short, Comey let Loretta Lynch stop the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. Just help me....

[WKUHilltopper]

Wonder where Lynch got this idea? On an airplane?