Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying about whether she told him to refer to the Hillary Clinton email investigation as a "Matter" instead of an investigation in a September 2015 meeting.
While testifying last year at a closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing last June, Comey said Lynch had pressured him to minimize the significance of the Clinton email probe - an encounter which he says left him questioning her impartiality, and - along with Lynch's clandestine tarmac meeting on a hot summer's day in 2016 - contributed to his decision to hold a July 2016 press conference announcing the FBI's conclusions.
"I didn't direct anyone to use specific phraseology. When the Director asked me how to best to handle that, I said: What I have been saying is we have received a referral and we are working on the matter, working on the issue, or we have all the resources we need to handle the matter, handle the issue. So that was the suggestion that I made to him," Lynch added - telling lawmakers that she was "Quite surprised" to hear how Comey would later describe the conversation "Because that was not how it was conveyed to him, certainly not how it was intended."
Co/IRV4FC8pAO. Lynch flat DENIES Comey instructed her to call the HRC email probe a "Matter".
In April of 2018, Comey's former Deputy, Andrew McCabe, said that Comey was fully aware that he was making self-serving leaks to the Wall Street Journal.
More recently, Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan are at odds over who insisted that the discredited Steele Dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference.
According to Fox News, an email chain exists which indicates that Comey told bureau subordinates that Brennan insisted on its inclusion, while a former CIA official "Put the blame squarely on Comey," according to the network.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-20/now-its-comey-vs-lynch-someones-lying-again
While testifying last year at a closed-door House Oversight Committee hearing last June, Comey said Lynch had pressured him to minimize the significance of the Clinton email probe - an encounter which he says left him questioning her impartiality, and - along with Lynch's clandestine tarmac meeting on a hot summer's day in 2016 - contributed to his decision to hold a July 2016 press conference announcing the FBI's conclusions.
"I didn't direct anyone to use specific phraseology. When the Director asked me how to best to handle that, I said: What I have been saying is we have received a referral and we are working on the matter, working on the issue, or we have all the resources we need to handle the matter, handle the issue. So that was the suggestion that I made to him," Lynch added - telling lawmakers that she was "Quite surprised" to hear how Comey would later describe the conversation "Because that was not how it was conveyed to him, certainly not how it was intended."
Co/IRV4FC8pAO. Lynch flat DENIES Comey instructed her to call the HRC email probe a "Matter".
In April of 2018, Comey's former Deputy, Andrew McCabe, said that Comey was fully aware that he was making self-serving leaks to the Wall Street Journal.
More recently, Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan are at odds over who insisted that the discredited Steele Dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference.
According to Fox News, an email chain exists which indicates that Comey told bureau subordinates that Brennan insisted on its inclusion, while a former CIA official "Put the blame squarely on Comey," according to the network.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-20/now-its-comey-vs-lynch-someones-lying-again
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