[rktman]

Still lookin' for the light at the end of the tunnel. As I said before somewhere on one of the threads, this 'hole' thing is an insult and a slap in the face to, probably, millions of Americans who worked with classified information with the full knowledge that even losing by accident, classified information could cost you your job at the very least and at worst could land them in jail and paying a big fine. Mrs. rktman and I both worked in jobs where we understood the obligation of safe guarding certain information and material. We would have face consequences for a breach such as this. The special folks, apparently not so much.

[DugwayDuke]

As I posted a couple of days ago with a slightly different take:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3445798/posts?page=56#56

I think this meeting was to arrange the meeting on Saturday. I say “arrange the meeting” because I’m not sure it was an ‘interview’. I am hypothesizing that the AG used this ‘meeting’ to convey to HRC that Saturday the FBI would disclose to her their case which they would have to do so during discovery anyway. In my scenario, this is the equivalent of Goldwater meeting with Nixon. HRC would then have the opportunity to fight the case or forgo the nomination.

I do agree with the author that some information is just to sensitive to be passed in any other way except the most trusted confidant and verbally.

[randita]

This explanation of the meeting is as good or better than most I’ve seen.

In a nutshell, it was pre-arranged, it was supposed to be kept secret, Lynch needed to convey the message to Shrillary that she could give Hillary the Petraeus slap on the wrist for the mishandling of classified information, but Lynch could NOT give Shrillary a pass should Shrillary perjure herself in the FBI interview.

I hope Congress calls Lynch up to the Hill to answer some tough questions about the meeting. Lynch has put her integrity and her career on the line. Someone needs to find out why.

[Ransomed]

“This account appears to be backed by leaks that suggest Lynch’s FBI escort was surprised and upset by the encounter — not only because it presents inherent security problems when two groups of heavily armed agents approach each other without a prearranged plan, but because as FBI agents they understood that the encounter at least appeared improper.”

So surprised that the reporter who got the tip was supposedly told he couldn’t take any pictures by the FBI on the scene. OK then.

Freegards

[Grampa Dave]

In his new book Crisis of Character: A White House Secret, Gary Bryne tells about another secret service agent’s private encounter with the GodFather, Bill Clinton, during the testimony hearings, starting on page 166-167.

Clinton approached the agent and after some small talk, he asked the agent how his wife and kids were…...They had never actually talked before.

“Nothing about that was normal. It was obviously a subtle form of intimidation. The president was sending a message that he knew of the officer’s recent testimony,---and perhaps was sending a more sinister message.”

"Former President Bill Clinton, doing his best Boss Hogg impersonation, rendezvoused with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the middle of the scorching Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport tarmac to discuss “grandchildren, golf, family” and of course his “wife’s” possible indictment for violating a couple hundred national security statutes."

[ThePatriotsFlag]

So Lynch’s meeting with Clinton was not only to deliver news of the investigation’s status, but to warn him -- and so Hillary -- not to trap herself in the forthcoming FBI interview. In other words, for Hillary to go against all instincts and try to tell the truth, or as much of it as possible, lest the FBI catch her out and solidify an obstruction case against her too.

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There's the "key" way down at the bottom of the article.

[liberalh8ter]

If the author is correct about the meeting being prearranged for Lynch to spill the beans to Slick Willy, could it be that the FBI would then go after Lynch? Is that possible?

[pabianice]

They met on the RAMP, an area of an airport upon which aircraft park and taxi. NOT the "tarmac."

Tarmac (short for tarmacadam) is a type of road surfacing material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1901. The term is also used, with varying degrees of correctness, for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, and modern asphalt concrete.

The term is also often improperly used to describe airport aprons, "ramps", and runways. Sheesh.

[EDINVA]

My spouse worked with classified information back in the early 60’s, information that has no doubt long since become obsolete. Yet, to this day, he would not discuss with a soul the information to which he was then privvy.

Maybe we should revitalize the “loose lips sink ships” campaign. Or have we as a people just become so dumb that we don’t understand, or so callous and agenda driven that we don’t care?

[Mariner]

If she is not charged, the leaks will end her political career anyway.

Whether release of the raw emails by Wikileaks, or the FBI leaks of what they found in their investigation, I don't understand how she'll be able to spin out of political catastrophe.

And all associated will be carry a lifetime of taint.

It's so much easier and problem free to indict.

And without any penalty...no downside.

[fella]

Have any enterprising journalists done FOIA requests for the tarmac and ramp surveillance videos? Even the your local gas stations have surveillance cameras at the pumps.

[seawolf101]

It all depends on who called whom and who told the press. There is a possibility that Bill Clinton was told that Loretta Lynch would be at that airport and both Obama and Lynch set him up. This way Lynch has to indict Hillary in order to avoid the appearance that it was fixed. There is smply no easy way out of this for Bill Clinton and Hillary. Either way Hillary loses.