Posted on 07/12/2016 10:00:00 AM PDT by maggief
Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to discuss her decision not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, despite intense criticism from House Republicans.
Days after FBI Director James Comey testified for nearly five hours in one House committee, Lynch took a markedly different tack before a separate panel.
She repeatedly refused to discuss details of the Clinton case, referred matters back to the FBI and at times appeared to go out of her way not even to say the former secretary of State's name, instead referring obliquely to “the matter.”
“While I understand that this investigation has generated significant public interest, as attorney general, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on the underlying facts of the investigation or the legal basis for the team’s recommendation,” Lynch said.
“I received a briefing from the team,” she added, which included FBI investigators and career prosecutors. “I accepted that recommendation.”
The repeated dodges did not sit well with Republicans, who nonetheless peppered her with questions about her deferral of judgment in the Clinton case while declining to completely recuse herself from the issue.
“The concern here is about your sworn oath to uphold the laws,” Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told Lynch after a series of questions she declined to address. “And to conclude that no prosecution would take place without examining and drawing conclusions regarding the questions that I’ve just asked does not seem to be a responsible way to uphold your constitutionally sworn oath.”
“You are in charge of the Department of Justice. The buck stops with you,” added Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). “I am concerned that you have deferred the authority that is yours by law to Director Comey.”
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Absolutely. At a minimum, it gives the appearance of impropriety and horrible judgement on her part. Particularly, when you find out that steps were taken to keep the meeting secret. That, in and of itself, is an admission by the DOJ that the meeting had the appearance of impropriety, if not worse.
Then, the Attorney General needs to be grilled over the gross negligence standard and lack of need for intent in the legislation. She, of all people, should have seen Comey's specious arguments a mile away and realized that he was misapplying the law. Comey, to his credit, laid out a great gross negligence case before he stated wrongly that intent was needed. Get her to admit that interpreting the constitutionality of a statute is not her job nor the job of the FBI director but the job of the courts. If they are concerned about the gross negligence standard in that statute, they have just been handed the perfect case in which to raise that concern to the courts. However, the issue needs to be raised by the Hillary defense team and not the DOJ (although I suppose that they could file a friend of the court brief raising the concerns and in support of the defense's position). The ultimate call, however, lies with the court and her actions did NOTHING to resolve the issue. The statute is unchanged and remains open to the discretion of the future prosecutors and can be arbitrarily applied thanks to her inaction.
Great post and you are right on. The GOP needs to make it really uncomfortable for them. They have been given a gift and are being given gifts by patriots to make it easier for them. They better do something or others are going to step in and deal with it straight. Not the place to go but if necessary it must be done.
(She’s not even astute enough to keep her narrative coherent...)
Shouldn’t Obambi be squatting there?
Re: your entire comment......Lynch doesn’t care about any Justice being applied. She is loyal and only serves her Master.
Hillary 2 GOP scratches a$$ ponders round 3.
Obama has EMBEDDED most of his hires, especially the MUSLIM ones and the Blacks, into CIVIL SERVICE JOBS so they can NEVER, EVER be gotten rid of!! They are there to DISRUPT and SPY on any Republican President.
Civil Service rules can be amended by Exec. order. See how they like them apples
Of course, she doesn't. The point of these hearings should be to make that clear to everyone. Polls showing that most people think that Hillary should have been indicted indicate that the common person realizes that special treatment was being handed out and something rotten is going on here. Keep the pressure on the administration over this as there appears to be political gain to be made here.
Proverbs 24:24-25 (NIV):
To show partiality in judging is not good:
Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent,”
will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.
But it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and rich blessing will come on them.
No longer true, not at the highest levels of law and order, the seat and origin of laws and the chief executive.
Unless congress actually has the balls to prosecute, via prosecutorial action, and actually get perjurers behind the walls of the crossbar motel, no one, and I mean NO ONE, is going to tell the truth, or spill any beans.
They get to sit in front of a committee, shuck and jive, disremember, forget, not recall, and then go home,...some withering inquisition?
It runs downhill snowballing from there, to the point where felons are being released because we are too hard on them!
Does anybody reading this actually think anyone in the "hotseat" in front of any committee actually even miss a heart beat?
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