Joe Scarborough: Lynch-Clinton Private Meeting 'Bad Judgment'
Quote:Attorney General Loretta Lynch should have never met privately on her plane with Bill Clinton earlier this week, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel agreed Thursday, as the meeting could have only been about one thing: the ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
"You can't make this up," host Joe Scarborough of the meeting. "There's no way you can let him come on your plane and talk privately. ... These two people showed the most extraordinarily bad judgment. And where was their staff? Who was on the plane with Loretta Lynch to say, 'you cannot do this?'"
"She shouldn't have let him on the plane," Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin said. "He shouldn't have wanted to get on the plane."
"There's nothing else to talk about but the one thing," show co-host Mika Brzezinski said, after wanting to know what Clinton could have needed to know that he needed to meet with Lynch privately.
The former president and Lynch met for about 30 minutes while her government plane was parked on the Sky Harbor International Airport tarmac. According to ABC15 in Phoenix, Clinton was leaving when he learned Lynch would be landing, and he chose to wait to speak with her.
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Their meeting, coming just hours before Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their report on the 2012 attacks in Libya, raised eyebrows, but Lynch told reporters they had a social visitwhere they talked about her grandchildren, their travels, and his golfing.
"There was no discussion on any matter pending before the department or any matter pending with any other body," Lynch said. "There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails."
Meanwhile, Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on Thursday also lambasted Lynch and Clinton for their meeting.
"If I was Hillary Clinton, I'd take a frying pan to his head," she told Fox Business Network show host Maria Bartiromo.
She also attacked them for their meeting on her Twitter page.
Quote:both Lynch/Bill Clinton are lawyers and know better - it is "appearance" of impropriety, not have to be actual
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) June 30, 2016
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Mind the former Presidents wife is being investigated as we speak
This is simply a meeting to ensure that everything goes smoothly
Not against the law
Bill Clinton Just Met With the Attorney General. But They Didn’t Talk About Hillary Clinton’s Email
Quote:Former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week, but they did not discuss the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email use as secretary of state, Lynch says.
Lynch said the meeting at a Phoenix airport on Tuesday was unplanned, the Associated Press reported.
The FBI and Justice Department are currently investigating the security of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, which she used for government business as secretary of state, and the potential mishandling of sensitive information. The issue has followed Clinton for more than a year. Clinton had said she did not email classified information to anyone from her private server, but officials did find classified information in her emails.
Lynch said this week’s meeting happened when Bill Clinton was waiting to depart the airport and walked over to Lynch’s plane after she landed. Lynch said they mostly spoke about their grandchildren and their conversation was “primarily social and about our travels.”
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest addressed the meeting during Thursday’s press briefing. Earnest said he believes the meeting did not affect the Department of Justice’s investigation.
“Public trust would be eroded if people weren’t working to make clear that this investigation wouldn’t be influenced by politics,” Earnest said. “[Attorney General Lynch] certainly understands that investigations should be conducted free of political interference…she’s made clear that that’s the expectation she has for this investigation.”
[Associated Press]
The only defense I would by here is that Clinton strolled over for a quickie
Amb. Bolton: Lynch should resign as Attorney General
Quote:Fox Business Videos•June 30, 2016
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton on Loretta Lynch's meeting with Bill Clinton at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Had to go to youtube for the video
Lynch meeting latest episode to strain Clinton trust
Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — An impromptu meeting between Bill Clinton and the nation's top cop could further undermine Hillary Clinton's efforts to convince voters to place their trust in her, highlighting perhaps her biggest vulnerability.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed regret on Friday that she met with the former president earlier in the week at the Phoenix airport while the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices nears a conclusion. Lynch acknowledged that it "cast a shadow" on the public's perception of the case.
"I certainly wouldn't do it again," Lynch said of the meeting with the former president, who nominated her to serve as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999.
She added that she would follow the recommendations of career prosecutors on whether to file criminal charges at the close of the investigation, indicating that she would accept whatever decision was presented to her.
The attorney general's remarks at a Colorado conference were aimed at tamping down concerns that the investigation could be politically tainted or that Lynch, an Obama administration appointee, might overrule the findings of agents and prosecutors. They have spent months looking into the possible mishandling of classified information on the private email server Clinton used when she was secretary of state.
For Clinton, about four weeks shy of becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, the episode raises the risk that voters will see her again as part of an enduring power couple that doesn't play by the normal set of rules.
Confronted by questions about her email use, Clinton has struggled to overcome questions about her honesty during the campaign. The Phoenix meeting involving her husband could only compound the dilemma.
The former first lady and New York senator has argued that she is more trustworthy than Donald Trump on handling the issues that matter to most Americans: foreign policy, national security and running the economy. But the email investigation has continued to hang over her campaign and the meeting plays into Trump's argument that she showed poor judgment and will receive leniency from a Democratic administration.
"Oh, just a coincidence. He just happened to be at the airport at this time," Trump said with a dose of sarcasm while campaigning Friday in Colorado.
Speaking of the former president, Trump added: "He opened up a Pandora's Box. And it shows what's going on. And it shows what's happening with our laws and with our government."
While Democrats privately expressed angst about the meeting, others suggested it was more indicative of a gregarious former president.
John Morgan, a top Democratic fundraiser in Florida, said if the ex-president is at an airport and knows an acquaintance is close by, he's likely to stop by for a quick hello.
"It doesn't matter if it's Loretta Lynch or Loretta Lynn. He's coming over if he knows you," Morgan said.
Congressional Republicans seized on the meeting between the former president and the attorney general.
Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the third-ranking House Republican, said Lynch should recuse herself entirely from the case and appoint a special prosecutor. Lynch had said she would still be briefed on the investigation and review the results, but let the career officials make the call on whether a prosecution should go ahead.
"The notion that the prosecutor, the person who runs the Justice Department, would spend 30 minutes in a private conversation with the spouse of someone her department is investigating raises all sorts of red flags and even Democrats have admitted it," GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told Miami
610 WIOD Radio.
Lynch says the meeting was unplanned and happened while the former president was waiting to depart on another plane. She said he walked over and boarded her plane after she landed.
She said Clinton talked about his grandchildren and they discussed former Attorney General Janet Reno, whom they both know.
"We basically said hello, and I congratulated him on his grandchildren as people tend to do," she said Friday. "It really was a social meeting," she added.
"He spoke to me, he spoke to my husband."
The outcome of the investigation is likely to shape the presidential campaign, whether to Clinton's benefit if she is cleared or to Trump's advantage if she or anyone close to her winds up being prosecuted.
It comes as Clinton is entering a new phase of her campaign, considering a potential vice president choice and holding her first public events with Obama on Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, and with Vice President Joe Biden in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Friday.
Clinton has been hammering Trump's business record and expects to make a high-profile case against the Republican mogul in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Wednesday. Democrats hope that the Phoenix incident is quickly forgotten.
"It's not worrisome," said former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Clinton supporter. "It's a kerfuffle that will go away in another day as soon as Trump says something outrageous."
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Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Stephen Braun, Kathleen Hennessey and Catherine Lucey contributed to this report.
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Thier is one hole in her defense
Why is she playing defense trying to control the narrative.. I am pretty sure their are recorders on that D@#$ plane, where is the tape... She is too much of a pol not to have one..
You see the whole is obvious..
She did NOT come forward.. She waited till the press started having issues with it
If she had come forward with this, then it might be buyable
(07-03-2016, 03:31 PM)Armonica_Templar Wrote: [ -> ]...Thier is one hole in her defense
Why is she playing defense trying to control the narrative.. I am pretty sure their are recorders on that D@#$ plane, where is the tape... She is too much of a pol not to have one..
You see the whole is obvious..
She did NOT come forward.. She waited till the press started having issues with it
If she had come forward with this, then it might be buyable
The conversation was probably short and sweet...like - "Uhhh, Ms. Attorney General - Hillary says 'hi', and asked me to ask if you remember a fellow by the name of Vince Foster? Yeah...me too. Sad but true. How are the grandkids?"
It was an Inside Deal and look at what they made the Agent Sign!
Quote:'Gag' order: FBI confirms special secrecy agreements for agents in Clinton email probe
That right, the agents aren't allowed to talk about this Super Sensitive Case About Hillary!
Quote:The FBI has confirmed to a senior Republican senator that agents were sworn to secrecy -- and subject to lie detector tests -- in the Hillary Clinton email probe, an extensive measure one former agent said could have a "chilling effect."
A July 1 letter sent by a senior deputy to FBI Director James Comey to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, detailed the restrictions on agents. The letter, reviewed by Fox News, confirmed agents signed a "Case Briefing Acknowledgement" which says the disclosure of information is "strictly prohibited" without prior approval, and those who sign are subject to lie detector tests.
"The purpose of this form is to maintain an official record of persons knowledgeable of a highly sensitive Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence investigation," the agreement attached to the Grassley letter reads, "....I (FBI agent) also understand that, due to the nature and sensitivity of this investigation, compliance with these restrictions may be subject to verification by polygraph examination."
The measures show the extent to which the bureau has gone to keep additional details of the politically sensitive case from going public. While Comey has provided some information on why the FBI did not opt to pursue charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch repeatedly ducked questions on specifics of the case at a House hearing Tuesday.
A recently retired FBI agent, who declined to speak on the record, citing the sensitivity of the matter, said a "Case Briefing Acknowledgement" is reserved for "the most sensitive of sensitive cases," and can have a "chilling effect" on agents, who understand "it comes from the very top and that there has to be a tight lid on the case."
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The Administration Is Full Of Crooks and Thugs and Anti-American's! No Regard For The Laws of Our Land, Only Their Agenda!
We Need To Rise Up NOW and Take Out Country Back!
Interesting ..
the blackmail angle.. Alex has a few issues, but the idea
a message was passed, but it leaves a thought
What if Obama leaked this?
lol
But the Idea makes a lot of sense
You do this we do this
@"Armonica_Templar"
You can Bet All You Own on this being Factual. Lynch took her Orders.
We all knew You Were Lying!!!!!
Bill Clinton a Born Liar, L. Lynch, Obama's A.G. also a Born lair!!!
Yes, that Chance Meeting On The Tarmac Was Scheduled.
Quote:Stunning revelation buried deep in IG report blows hole in Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting narrative
Yes you are a Lying Piece of Shit L. Lynch!!
Quote:A stunning revelation buried deep inside Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation suggests the controversial June 2016 tarmac meeting between then Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton was coordinated.
Well everyone with a Brain knew anything B. Clinton says is a Lie!
Of-Course the Obama Thugs Lie, they Lied for 8 years.
Quote:The meeting was extremely controversial at the time because it came just days before then FBI Director James Comey announced the FBI would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for using a private email server while secretary of state.
Yes we all knew Comey was a Obama Worshiper.
Now you want the Truth?
Quote:What does Horowitz’s report say?
The report states that the DOJ department of public affairs supervisor traveling with Lynch told internal DOJ investigators that Clinton’s Secret Service detail contacted Lynch’s security detail ahead of time to arrange the meeting.
Clinton’s plane was parked next to Lynch’s, the report revealed, or about just 20 to 30 yards away.
Are You Shock?
Quote:Page 203 of the report states:
Quote:The OPA Supervisor said that he later learned that former President Clinton’s Secret Service detail had contacted Lynch’s FBI security detail and let them know that the former President wanted to meet with Lynch. Although Lynch’s staff was supposed to receive notice of such requests, witnesses told us that they were not informed of the request from former President Clinton.
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People just don't understand how Lucky the American Public is By NOT Having This Corrupt Family in office.
(07-16-2016, 10:35 AM)Armonica_Templar Wrote: [ -> ]
Interesting ..
the blackmail angle.. Alex has a few issues, but the idea
a message was passed, but it leaves a thought
What if Obama leaked this?
lol
But the Idea makes a lot of sense
You do this we do this
During research the Anons were doing regarding this, they came up with a theory, based on Q's posts, that Lynch was promised a seat in the Supreme Court ( I think she would take Judge Scalia's seat), or somewhere, when Hillary won. This was promised if she would keep the investigation from going forward. But, you see, Hillary didn't win, so it's all going to come out now.
The second person that was trying to get on the plane was Amanda Renteria.
Post #1556
https://qanon.pub/
Quote:Q !CbboFOtcZs ID: 1f5d00 No.1807982 ?
Jun 18 2018 23:01:50 (EST)
Amanda Renteria.
Bridge LL & HRC.
+1 BC & LL (Tarmac)
Witness.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/vi...h-41487655?
Look close (behind BC).
Trusted by Clinton’s.
Running for CA Gov?
Who is funding?
Who is campaign manager?
Risk is HIGH.
Q
Here is an article Q posted:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/07/01...ssion=true
This is relevant in part to this thread, I think.