Shocker! Attorney General Lynch Removes Herself From Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Decision (VIDEO)

After several days of heated criticism from  both sides of the political aisle due to a “meeting” between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former president Bill Clinton, Lynch announced today that she would be removing herself from any judgment on the recommendations by investigators into the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

The decision may not have been entirely based on the outrage over the “unplanned” meeting, but it certainly seems to sped it up. The New York Times reports that:

“The Justice Department had been moving toward such an arrangement for months — officials said in April that it was being considered — but a private meeting between Ms. Lynch and former President Bill Clinton this week set off a political furor and made the decision all but inevitable.”

As a result, Lynch will not make a decision based on the recommendation of FBI investigators regarding their findings on whether or not Hillary Clinton illegally mishandled classified information by accessing them using a private server in her home while serving as Secretary of State. Instead, Lynch will defer to the recommendations of career prosecutor and the director of the FBI, effectively removing “the possibility that a political appointee will overrule investigators in the case.”

Lynch insists that her brief meeting with former president and spouse of the current presumptive nominee of the Democratic party included no discussion of the investigation. President Clinton, apparently, walked over to Lynch’s plane while at a stop in a Phoenix airport.

“’He did come over and say hello, and speak to my husband and myself, and talk about his grandchildren and his travels and things like that,’ Ms. Lynch said at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where she was promoting community policing. ‘That was the extent of that. And no discussions were held into any cases or things like that.'”

Despite these assurances, GOP politicians have seized on the meeting to accuse the Clintons of using political ties to influence the outcome of the investigation.

“’In light of the apparent conflicts of interest, I have called repeatedly on Attorney General Lynch to appoint a special counsel to ensure the investigation is as far from politics as possible,’ Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Thursday.”

The GOP presumptive nominee didn’t avoid politicizing the meeting, but who would expect any different from the fear-mongering, conspiracy-loving Donald Trump?

“When you meet for a half-hour and you’re talking about your grandchildren and a little about golf, I don’t know, it sounds like a long meeting,” Mr. Trump said.

The criticism hasn’t been strictly on the part of the GOP, however. Democrats have also been critical of the news of the meeting between Lynch and Clinton.

“It doesn’t send the right signal,” Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, said in response to a question on CNN’s “New Day.” While he said he believed that Ms. Lynch was an independent prosecutor, “I think she should have steered clear, even of a brief, casual, social meeting with the former president.”

The decision by Attorney General Lynch is not unprecedented considering the political ramifications should the investigation uncover wrongdoing on the part of the current Democratic frontrunner and presumptive nominee.

“When the Justice Department was considering whether to recommend sanctions against former Bush administration lawyers who approved waterboarding, Mr. Holder relied on his most senior career prosecutor to make the decision. No sanctions were recommended.”

The most recent updates regarding the investigation indicate that, although the investigation is nearly complete, the FBI has so far not uncovered any illegal activity on the part of Hillary Clinton. For CNN’s reporting on those most recent investigation reports, see video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEjQN61AzQ

 

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