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A White House spokesman tells us U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch “certainly understands that investigations should be conducted free of political interference and consistent with the facts.”
One thing the attorney general apparently does not understand is the old maxim that “if it smells bad, it stinks.” Because spending 30 minutes chatting with the husband of someone your staff is investigating for possible criminal wrongdoing — not to mention your own role running her foundation while she is secretary of state — smells like low water on a lake.
As syndicated columnist Diane Dimond pointed out in the Albuquerque Journal in May, “it will be Lynch who makes the ultimate decision about whether then-Secretary of State (Hillary) Clinton broke the law when she bypassed the government’s computer system and re-routed her emails through a non-secure home server.”
The fact “the former president postponed his departure from the Phoenix airport when he learned that Lynch would be landing soon and then sought her out for a 30-minute chat,” as columnist Kathleen Parker notes, means that “even if Hillary’s record is cleared, there will always be a kernel of doubt about whether it was a clean deal.”
Why would former President Bill Clinton muddy those lake waters just to talk about grandchildren? And why would Lynch allow her integrity and that of the Justice Department to be so compromised for chit-chat?
Because they either talked about quite a bit more, or they just can’t help themselves. Maybe Lynch was just star-struck, or maybe Clinton just makes his own rules.
Even Lynch is expressing regret at her lack of judgment, recognizing the impromptu meeting “cast a shadow” on public perception of her handling of the email case.
Try as you might, there is no possible way to come up with an explanation that does anything to give the American people confidence in the fairness of their justice system or their political one.
— Albuquerque Journal
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