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originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: carewemust
Lynch and Bill Clinton only talked about the grandkids on the tarmac.
I think the exact words were something like this -
Bill: “If you don’t dump cold water on Hillary’s email investigation, we won’t see our grandkids outside of prison visits.”
Lynch: “You are right, I will call Comey after you leave the plane.”
originally posted by: notsure1
a reply to: Lumenari
Well for now its the whole Trump aide and the sex cult.They Are trying very hard.
Obvious is so obvious.
Chicago Tribune: www.chicagotribune.com...
As the audience waited for Daniels to appear, a dancer scaled a pole to Santana’s “Smooth,” a woman walked up to a dancer and tentatively placed a bill in her thong, and the bass of “Uptown Funk” pounded through the back of leopard-print chairs, which looked like Lisa Frank designs under the party lights.
Just after the “Make America Horny Again” performance Thursday, Cecola told the Tribune he “thought her show was nothing to write home about,” questioning then whether the rest of the shows would go on.
originally posted by: highvein
a reply to: carewemust
Can't Trump just declassify it?
originally posted by: highvein
originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: carewemust
Lynch and Bill Clinton only talked about the grandkids on the tarmac.
I think the exact words were something like this -
Bill: “If you don’t dump cold water on Hillary’s email investigation, we won’t see our grandkids outside of prison visits.”
Lynch: “You are right, I will call Comey after you leave the plane.”
As Bill was about to leave he turned back to Lynch and said, "Bye the way, do you like cigars?".
I recommend the death penalty for all the names you mentioned.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: RazorV66
It's also on good authority that Bill was bringing a message to Loretta Lynch from Hillary. If she'd get Hillary off the hook, she (Lynch) would be nominated to fill the Supreme Court opening created by Justice Antonin Scalia's death.
Just 5 days later, corrupt Comey cleared Hillary of all criminal wrongdoing.
No wonder Lynch was so insanely angry after Hillary lost! Everyone has seen the video of her calling for riots and blood in the streets. WAAAAY over the top. Now we know why!
Comey said that he also was concerned about an issue specific to Lynch. As
discussed in more detail in the classified appendix to this report, Comey told the
OIG that the FBI had obtained highly classified information in March 2016 that
included allegations of partisan bias or attempts to impede the Midyear
investigation by Lynch. Numerous witnesses we interviewed—including Comey—
said that the FBI assessed that these allegations were not credible based on various
factors, including that some of the information was objectively false. For example,
the information also suggested that Comey was attempting to influence the
investigation by extending it to help Republicans win the election, which witnesses
said the FBI knew was not true. By mid-June 2016, the FBI had obtained no
information corroborating the Lynch-related allegations.
When asked about this information, Comey stated that he knew it was not
credible on its face because it was not consistent with his personal experience with
Lynch. Comey stated, “I saw no, I’ll say this again, I saw no reality of Loretta
Lynch interfering in this investigation.” However, Comey said that he became
concerned that the information about Lynch would taint the public’s perception of
the Midyear investigation if it leaked, particularly after DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0
began releasing hacked emails in mid-June 2016.
Despite these concerns, Comey told the OIG that it did not occur to him to
request a special counsel in late 2015, after Lynch’s instruction to use the term
“matter” or former President Obama’s public comments about the investigation
(discussed in Chapter Four), because Comey was satisfied with the nature and the
quality of the investigation being conducted by the FBI. Comey emphasized that
the FBI had its “A team” working on the investigation, and that he was closely
involved to ensure that the team was protected from political or other influence.
As we describe in more detail in the classified appendix, Yates and Axelrod
told us that the FBI mentioned this information to them sometime in the Spring of
2016 and provided a defensive briefing on it on July 12, 2016.128 Yates said that
the FBI told her that the information was not deemed credible and did not show her
the relevant documents. After being shown the documents in her OIG interview,
Yates expressed frustration and said that, had she been informed that the FBI had
concerns about the information, she would have engaged Comey in discussions
about the impact on the Midyear investigation. The FBI also did not provide Lynch
with a defensive briefing about the information until August 2016, more than a
month after investigative activity in Midyear was concluded, and she also was told
that the information was not credible. Lynch said that until Comey’s public
testimony in 2017, she was never told that the information played a role in his
unilateral decision to make a public statement about the Midyear investigation or
concerns about whether a special counsel was necessary.
originally posted by: highvein
a reply to: carewemust
Can't Trump just declassify it?
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: xuenchen
Were going to need something bigger than the made up story about the kids
After being shown the documents in her OIG interview, Yates expressed frustration and said that, had she been informed that the FBI had concerns about the information, she would have engaged Comey in discussions about the impact on the Midyear investigation
Senator Burr then asked whether there were other things that contributed to
Comey’s decision that he could describe in an open session. Comey stated:
There were other things that contributed to that. 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 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. But that was one of the bricks in the
load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the Department
if we’re to close this case credibly.
Comey was asked to provide additional details about Lynch’s instruction to
call the Midyear investigation a “matter” by Senator James Lankford. Comey
stated:
Well, it concerned me because we were at the point where we had
refused to confirm the existence, as we typically do, of an investigation
for months, and it was getting to a place where that looked silly,
because the campaigns were talking about interacting with the FBI in
the course of our work.
The Clinton campaign at the time was using all kind of euphemisms—
security review, matters, things like that—for what was going on. We
were getting to a place where the Attorney General and I were both
going to have to testify and talk publicly about [it]. And I wanted to
know, was she going to authorize us to confirm we had an
investigation?
Comey also had an extended exchange with Senator John Cornyn about
whether Lynch had an appearance of a conflict of interest requiring appointment of
a special counsel.
SENATOR CORNYN: But it seems to me that you clearly believe that
Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General, had an appearance of a conflict of
interest on the Clinton email investigation. Is that correct?
COMEY: I think that’s fair. I didn’t believe she could credibly decline
that investigation, at least not without grievous damage to the
Department of Justice and to the FBI.
SENATOR CORNYN: And, under Department of Justice and FBI norms,
wouldn’t it have been appropriate for the Attorney General, or, if she
had recused herself—which she did not do—for the Deputy Attorney
General to appoint a special counsel? That’s essentially what’s
happened now with Director Mueller. Would that have been an
appropriate step in the Clinton email investigation in your opinion?
COMEY: Certainly a possible step, yes, sir.
Comey told us that by the time the tarmac incident occurred on June 27, 2016, he was already “90 percent there” in terms of the decision to make a public statement, but that the tarmac meeting “tipped the scales” towards making his mind up to go forward with an independent announcement on the Midyear investigation.
originally posted by: Muninn
a reply to: carewemust
We use to own a business in Chicago and even though we were not democrats we gave to their so called causes but only because we knew it was the only way to get what we wanted.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: carewemust
What makes you think it was classified for political reasons, and if it was political why haven't the Trumpsters on the committee leaked it yet?