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Comey: Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation
The Weekly Standard ^
| June 8, 2017
| By Mark Hemingway
Posted on 06/08/2017 12:05:15 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; 201704; 20170608; clinton; comey; comeyhearings; comeylynch; comeytestimony; hillaryinvestigation; investigation; lorettalynch; lynch; lynchcomey; matter; obama; prison
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Comey has been doing a lot of leaking.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:07:34 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"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."
To: Oldeconomybuyer
We know that, but she has protective pigmentation, and Trump doesn’t.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:08:16 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation”
No one on earth could think of that as ‘news’
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:08:24 PM PDT
by
SMARTY
("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:12:14 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:12:37 PM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
But, surely this is what Washington considers to be a good attempt at influence.And besides, this influence worked!
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:14:46 PM PDT
by
Baynative
( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:17:31 PM PDT
by
t4texas
(Remember the Alamo!)
To: Cowboy Bob
Calling the Killery unlawful fiasco a *matter* is like when the Brits call the Northern Ireland murdering *the Troubles*.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:19:33 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:20:07 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, sure she did. But she’s a Democrat so it don’t matter.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:29:31 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
("Fight for your country." Hector)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:31:26 PM PDT
by
Robert357
( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
She didn’t ‘attempt’, she actually did.....................
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(You can't assimilate one whose entire reason for being here is to not assimilate in the first place.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:36:22 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:36:35 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If the attorney general was working with a criminal suspect, wasn’t that a big deal?
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:37:47 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
In short, Comey let Loretta Lynch stop the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. Just help me....
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posted on
06/08/2017 12:38:49 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wonder where Lynch got this idea? On an airplane?
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posted on
06/08/2017 1:03:35 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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