No, Loretta Lynch Was Not 'Ambushed' by Bill Clinton

americanthinker.com ^ | 7/4/2016 | Jonathan F. Keiler

[rktman]

Sifting through the facts slowly emerging from the tattered veil of secrecy surrounding the tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, it is likely that the popular narrative that the Attorney General was ambushed is false. In all likelihood, General Lynch had an important agenda that needed to be communicated immediately to Team Hillary.

Last week I wrote a piece reasonably speculating that Lynch’s meeting with Clinton meant that the FBI would shortly refer charges to Justice, and that Lynch met Clinton to break the bad news and reassure him that nothing would come of it under her watch. Since that article was published new information has come to light, but none that would undermine its central premise. That Hillary Clinton was finally interviewed by FBI agents on Saturday strongly suggests that not only was Lynch’s meeting with Clinton prearranged, but reinforces the idea that their discussion improperly focused on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary.

[billyboy15]

He may have done exactly that through Lynch.

[Texas Eagle]

That's disgusting! He watched?!

What's even more disgusting, somebody married that?!

[The Continental Op]

The fix is in. The timing of this meeting speaks volumes—just days before the long awaited Clinton interview. I believe Lynch told Clinton that all was well unless Clinton confessed during the interview, so just give a lot of “I really don’t recall” answers and she’s off the hook. The announcement will come just before the convention. This is as crooked as can be. Lynch is no fool, and knew that if the meeting got out it would look bad, but she didn’t care, as it was more important to impart the information. They are “in your face” crooked.

[sport]

I will tell how it will turn out. Nothing is going to happen to Hillary. Hillary is going to be nominated by the Democrat Party at their Convention to be their Presidential Candidate. And they, along with their allies the main stream media, the Elite Republicans, the Never Trumpers, the Anybody But Trumpers, Wall Street, including big business and bankers will do every thing in their power, by hook or by crook, to put her in the White House.

[Buttons12]

When may we expect the transcript of Hillary’s interrogation? I want to count the objections. Should be quite a tangle of them, if as reported she had lawyers like crabs in a basket.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I see that the Clintoon campaign is sending Rimshot Joe and Obonzo out to campaign for her starting this week. I know those two jackasses don’t have anything to do anyway but it still makes me wonder if Clintoon has been place under house arrest.

[marktwain]

The “General” was not meant to be literal, but rather symbolic. That is how I took it.

As in Lynch is a General in the political war against the Republicans.

[Awgie]

“Passing a note in Central Park,” thats funny! Bill in his trench coat and Loretta dressed like a Hip Hop Ho, sitting on a bench.

“Hey Bill, is that a .45 in yo pocket, or ya jus glad to see me?”

“Tell me what I needs to know LoHo and I'll let you shoot my gun.”

[dayglored]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis

It was about Saul Alinsky, her socio-political mentor.

[blueunicorn6]

Loretta Lynch works for the citizens of The United States.

She does not work for Barack Obama.

She does not work for the Democrat Party.

These Democrats keep forgetting who pays their wages.

Congress can mess with their pay pretty easily.

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

Whatever it was it had to be said in person with no email trail, text trail...no trace. That tells you all you need to know.

[kabar]

Here is a copy of her thesis in full. You can read it for yourself to see what it was about.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

All for show, and speculation, a secret meeting on the Tarmac, what, they do not have phones or secure e-mail? HAHAHA, I work right by the airport, all for show..

[butlerweave]

Why hasn’t Barry fired her a%&?

LOL, Barry fire someone, ROFL

[Dustoff45]

All for show, and speculation

Remember both ex-prez clinton and the current AG have protection details. The meeting also took place with a controlled space - airport property. This meeting was planned.

And even if clinton would have been so bold to have thought he could just jump on her plane, The AG's protection detail would have needed to clear it first.

Both of their movements are very controlled.

[kabar]

Lynch is no fool, and knew that if the meeting got out it would look bad, but she didn’t care, as it was more important to impart the information. They are “in your face” crooked.

My take. Lynch already knows what the FBI's decision is. DOJ has been an integral part of the investigation working with the FBI gathering evidence and conducting interviews.

This meeting was orchestrated so Lynch could say that she would accept the decision of the FBI and DOJ career personnel. Thus, when the decision comes out not to prosecute Hillary, Lynch can play Pontius Pilate. Clinton and Lynch both knew the reaction to the meeting. It is all a charade to fool the public. The message: The decision not to prosecute was apolitical.

[VRW Conspirator]

Does that women know that she is now bought and paid for? She was given roller skates to make sliding under the bus happen swiftly.

[Zakeet]

The bottom line to the article:

I continue to believe that the FBI will refer charges against Hillary Clinton in the email case for at least the failure to preserve federal records and mishandling of classified information. I think this because the evidence of at least her misfeasance, and to only a slightly lesser degree her malfeasance, is so overwhelming that it would be a true travesty of justice and a huge black mark on that agency and its director, were there be any other conclusion.

Lynch knows this, both because she knows the case, and probably the FBI told her so. But as bad as those charges would be for Hillary, they are not fatal, either legally or politically. It would be difficult, but not extraordinarily so (at least by the standards of the Obama administration) for Lynch (or her subordinates at Justice) to say they come to a different conclusion as to Hillary’s criminal culpability with respect to handling the documents, and thus defer actually charging her. Alternatively, it is also conceivable that Hillary even if charged with federal records violations and mishandling classified material could get the General Petraeus treatment plead to a misdemeanor, and still survive to win election. It was a largely political decision by Lynch's predecessor, Eric Holder, to charge Petraeus only with mishandling classified documents, rejecting the advice of the FBI and career prosecutors to also go forward with charges of making false statements.

Here then is the final piece of the Clinton-Lynch meeting puzzle. Lynch did not want to be put in Holder's position. It's one thing for her to help Hillary out on the documents, another if the FBI can bring credible charges of obstruction or making false statements. 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.

Since news of the meeting has come to light and with it a storm of controversy, Lynch has said she will follow the advice of the FBI and career prosecutors. But this still gives her plenty of wiggle room. It is not a promise to vacate the FBI's findings should that agency recommend charges, as career prosecutors in her own department may differ. She has not recused herself, and retains the authority to overrule the FBI until she does. Not only that, but even if she recused herself, she'd be replaced by a subordinate political appointee, who would also likely do the Obama administration’s bidding.

Had the meeting in Phoenix never come to light, which was clearly the intention of Lynch and Clinton, the fix with Hillary would have been in. As it stands, Hillary's fate will depend on whether she escaped the FBI interview in good shape, the integrity of that agency's director, and the utter indifference of many Americans to her criminal dishonesty. Finally, it will depend on the Obama administration's tolerance for blatant political intrigues. If the past is any guide, that tolerance is quite high.

In other words, Loretta handed the Witch a status report so she could prepare a crib sheet in order to better fudge her answers to the FBI's questions and ultimately skate on anything more serious than a slap on the wrist.

Stated more simply: the fix is in!

[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.

[Starboard]

Prolly a discussion about Lynch’s future employment prospects too.