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Senate announces probe of Loretta Lynch behavior in 2016 election
The Washington Times ^ | June 23, 2017 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 06/23/2017 9:43:37 AM PDT by jazusamo

The Senate Judiciary Committee has opened a probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s efforts to shape the FBI’s investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the committee’s chairman announced Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2016election; clinton; comey; corruption; fbi; lorettalynch; lynch; second100days; senatejudiciarycom; thehillarymatter; thematter; trumprussia; trumpwiretaps
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To: jazusamo

I hope this is only the beginning.


41 posted on 06/23/2017 11:31:22 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Cboldt

Lynch has no immunity from an obstruction charge.


42 posted on 06/23/2017 11:33:47 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: jazusamo



43 posted on 06/23/2017 11:39:36 AM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: jazusamo

Maybe this time we can get at least one pair of cankles behind bars


44 posted on 06/23/2017 11:40:07 AM PDT by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: jazusamo

Why investigate? Using the democrat standard of evidence, we have all we need to convict her and send her away for life. What standard? We believe she’s hopelessly corrupt; that should work.


45 posted on 06/23/2017 11:49:56 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: jazusamo

As always, it’ll be nothing but a dog and pony show. Until I see a slew of orange jumpsuits, I don’t give a rat’s ass.


46 posted on 06/23/2017 11:53:48 AM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: arrogantsob
-- Lynch has no immunity from an obstruction charge. --

Not per se, no. No more than Bill Clinton did for lying to investigators. But my point, and I believe I said this, is that a prosecutor is not "obstructing justice" when they decline to prosecute a case. If Lynch tells Comey, the cop, that she is not going to prosecute the case, she is not obstructing justice. She is exercising (improperly, sure) prosecutorial discretion. The prosecutor has that power.

Similar to Trump having pardon power vs. federal crimes. He can pardon a person, and that is not obstruction of justice. He can order an investigation to stop (even improperly) and that is not obstruction of justice in a clinical/legal sense.

Lynch can decline to prosecute anything, and that is within her power. The remedy for abuse of that power is removal from office, call it for dereliction or something.

47 posted on 06/23/2017 11:54:22 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

“is that a prosecutor is not “obstructing justice” when they decline to prosecute a case.”

She didn’t Decline to prosecute a case. There is an e-mail where she tells Clinton’s team she will not allow the case to go anywhere. That’s obstruction of Justice.


48 posted on 06/23/2017 12:24:20 PM PDT by heights
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To: jazusamo

Hitting back...

SO much fun, ain’t it?!?!!!

Forgot what it felt like over the last eight-year nightmare.


49 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:39 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: jazusamo

Oh, wow!! Another Senate investigation to spread out until election time 2018. Then “Who? US? Drop it.”


50 posted on 06/23/2017 12:51:49 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Okeydoker

She’ll take the fifth, the pubbie eunuchs will give us a “curses, foiled again” and that will be that. I’ve seen this movie before. I can’t think of an individual that has disappointed me more than Sessions has. Hell we might as well have had one of the Bush boys running DOJ.


51 posted on 06/23/2017 12:52:14 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: rktman

That reminds me of the time a Vegas brothel was foreclosed by the IRS. The gubmint now “owned” a staff of, er, ah, ummm, ladies. El Rushbo quipped that it was unsure whether the ladies required pelvic exams; but Ted Kennedy was “looking into it.” Picture THAT, if you can stomach it.


52 posted on 06/23/2017 1:16:20 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: Tucker39

I thought it was one of the houses of ill repute outside Reno. Maybe the Bunny Ranch. Guess the IRS wanted to give them a chance to get ahead. Or something. ;-)


53 posted on 06/23/2017 1:21:38 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

I think you’re right. Reno. Bunny Ranch. Anyhow, Rush quipped that Teddy was “looking into” pelvic exams.


54 posted on 06/23/2017 1:34:45 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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To: jazusamo
Ah, payback is a bitch. Is it possible this would never have been started without Comey’s testimony?
55 posted on 06/23/2017 1:51:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Cboldt

It appears that she did more than refuse to prosecute. She wouldn’t even announce that. Interfering with an ongoing investigation is not refusal to indict but obstruction.


56 posted on 06/23/2017 1:52:29 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Bump!


57 posted on 06/23/2017 2:12:30 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cheerio

What ever happened to the officer who was standing there listening to the conversation between Lynch and Clinton on the tarmac?


58 posted on 06/23/2017 5:53:21 PM PDT by Melian (When you are ready to learn, a teacher will appear.)
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To: jazusamo

Means nothing if Hillary is allowed to go scot-free.


59 posted on 06/23/2017 6:25:06 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: jazusamo

Hahaha. I’d rather see an indictment from the DOJ rather than an “investigation” by these kabuki artists. What a pathetic joke.


60 posted on 06/23/2017 7:43:53 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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