James Comey confirmed this morning that President Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch attempted to influence the Clinton email investigation, saying her request “confused me and concerned me.”
Attorney General Lynch Attempted To Influence Clinton Investigation
Transcript:
SEN. BURR: The decision to publically roll out with your results on the email, was your decision influenced by the Attorney General’s tarmac meeting with the former President Bill Clinton?
DIR. COMEY: Yes, in a ultimately conclusive way, that was the thing that capped it for me. That I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation which meant both the FBI and Justice Department.
SEN. BURR: Were there other things that contributed to that, that you can describe in an open session?
DIR. COMEY: There were other things that contributed to that but one significant item I can’t, I know the committee’s been briefed on, there’s been some public accounts of it which are nonsense but I understand the committee’s been briefed on the classified facts. Probably the only other consideration that I guess I can talk about in an open setting is that at one point the Attorney General had directed me not to call it an ‘investigation’ but instead to call it a ‘matter’ which confused me and concerned me.
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