When it comes to corruption, Loretta Lynch is about as corrupt as it gets. So too is James Comey which is why Lynch throwing Comey under the bus is all that more funny and ironic. Loretta Lynch is now flatly accusing former FBI Director James Comey of mischaracterizing her statements by repeatedly alleging that Lynch privately instructed him to call the Hillary Clinton email probe a “matter” instead of an “investigation.” Somehow, I have to believe Comey here, especially after the little tarmac meeting between Lynch and rapist Bill Clinton. Unreported by most major media, Lynch had to give testimony back in December to the House Judiciary Committee. The transcripts were released today.
| Loretta Lynch accuses Comey of misrepresenting key Clinton probe conversation |
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But in her testimony in December, Lynch said Comey had completely mischaracterized the situation.
“I have never instructed a witness as to what to say specifically. Never have, never will,” Lynch continued. “In the meeting that I had with the Director, we were discussing how best to keep Congress informed of progress and discuss requesting resources for the Department overall. We were going to testify separately. And the concern that both of us had in the meeting that I was having with him in September of 2015 was how to have that discussion without stepping across the Department policy of confirming or denying an investigation, separate policy from testifying.
“Obviously, we wanted to testify fully, fulsomely, and provide the information that was needed, but we were not at that point, in September of 2015, ready to confirm that there was an investigation into the email matter — or deny it,” Lynch added. “We were sticking with policy, and that was my position on that. 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.”
Pressed for her reaction to Comey’s statements, Lynch said they had come as a shock.
“I was quite surprised that he characterized it in that way,” Lynch said. “We did have a conversation about it, so I wasn’t surprised that he remembered that we met about it and talked about it. But I was quite surprised that that was his characterization of it, because that was not how it was conveyed to him, certainly not how it was intended.”
House Oversight Commitee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio — then the panel’s chairman — interjected.
“Excuse me. Ms. Lynch, so in the meeting with the FBI Director you referred to the Clinton investigation as a matter — I just want to make sure I understand — but you did not instruct the Director when he testified in front of Congress to call it a matter. Is that accurate?” Jordan asked.
“I said that I had been referring to — I had been using the phraseology,” Lynch responded. “We’ve received a referral. Because we received a public referral, which we were confirming. And that is Department policy, that when we receive a public referral from any agency, that we confirm the referral but we neither confirm nor deny the investigation. That’s actually a standard DOJ policy.