Former FBI Director James Comey has some choice words for former Attorney General Loretta Lynch in his new book, suggesting she was torn by his handling of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized email server and hints that there may yet be more information, which has yet to be released, calling into question her partiality.
Comey writes Lynch possessed a "Tortured half-out, half-in approach" to the emails inquiry.
At the end of the meeting, Comey says Lynch took a different tone.
A couple days before the election, Comey revealed the case had been closed again and that the FBI maintained its prior position that no charges should be brought against Clinton.
Last year, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Lynch requested he minimize Clinton's email investigation, urging him to call it a "Matter" instead of an "Investigation," a request which he said bothered him and some have speculated was to avoid associating Clinton with a negative issue as she ran for president.
"This was a very sensitive investigation as everyone knew. And the issue when he and I sat down at that time, which I think was early in the fall of 2015, was whether or not we were ready as a department to confirm an investigation going on, when we typically do not confirm or deny investigations into anything with rare exceptions," Lynch told Holt when asked about her pressing Comey on calling the emails investigation a "Matter."
In his book, Comey says "Unverified" information discovered by the U.S. government in 2016 from a classified source "Would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-book-hillary-clinton-emails-loretta-lynch
Comey writes Lynch possessed a "Tortured half-out, half-in approach" to the emails inquiry.
At the end of the meeting, Comey says Lynch took a different tone.
A couple days before the election, Comey revealed the case had been closed again and that the FBI maintained its prior position that no charges should be brought against Clinton.
Last year, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Lynch requested he minimize Clinton's email investigation, urging him to call it a "Matter" instead of an "Investigation," a request which he said bothered him and some have speculated was to avoid associating Clinton with a negative issue as she ran for president.
"This was a very sensitive investigation as everyone knew. And the issue when he and I sat down at that time, which I think was early in the fall of 2015, was whether or not we were ready as a department to confirm an investigation going on, when we typically do not confirm or deny investigations into anything with rare exceptions," Lynch told Holt when asked about her pressing Comey on calling the emails investigation a "Matter."
In his book, Comey says "Unverified" information discovered by the U.S. government in 2016 from a classified source "Would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-book-hillary-clinton-emails-loretta-lynch
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