Several congressional committees are also looking into that subject, as is the Justice Department inspector general.
That same day, multiple FBI officials sent links about the story to Comey, who responded to one email, "Got it, thanks sir." Also on those email chains were FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whom President Donald Trump and others have accused of a pro-Clinton bias because his wife received money for a political campaign from entities associated with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton ally; and Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team because of text messages critical of Trump. Strzok oversaw the Clinton email investigation.
Comey has testified before Congress that Lynch asked him to refer to the probe as a "matter," a request that made him feel "queasy.". The internal emails show that on June 29, 2016, a senior spokeswoman for the Justice Department emailed her counterparts at the FBI to flag articles that were starting to appear about the meeting.
The meeting between Lynch and Clinton took place in June 2016, while the FBI was investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Bill Clinton boarded Lynch's plane while it was on the tarmac at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. The following month, then-FBI Director James Comey announced the bureau would not recommend ...
At the time, the publisher of Observer was Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers. On July 2, a person whose name is redacted in the FBI release wrote to a bureau employee about the Observer article.
CHRISTOPHER SIGN , the journalist who broke the story of Bill Clinton’s meeting with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in 2016, has died aged 45.
What is Christopher Sign's book Secret On The Tarmac about? Secret on the Tarmac is an account of Lynch’s 20-minute meeting with the former US President. It was released in 2019, three years after the incident. Sign told Fox & Friends in February 2020: "We knew something had occurred that was a bit unusual.
Mike Pence says Biden has turned US into a 'secular welfare state' . Christopher Sign reveals he received death threats after breaking the story of the secret 2016 meeting between President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
Lynch also insisted that she tried to exit the conversation but Clinton 'continued talking'. The allegations of malpractice were never proved, although it did substantial damage to Clinton’s presidential bid as she lost to Trump in a shock defeat. 3.
An unscheduled meeting between the U.S. attorney general and former President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix on Monday could present some unwanted political problems for both. The former president, who was waiting to depart the state, boarded Loretta Lynch's government aircraft shortly after she landed in Arizona for a community policing ...
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch speaks at a June 22 news conference in Washington. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch speaks at a June 22 news conference in Washington. An unscheduled meeting between the U.S. attorney general and former President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix on Monday could present some unwanted political problems ...
The Justice Department and FBI are investigating the security of Hillary Clinton's private email server, which she used to conduct official business as secretary of state.
And Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group that has sued for access to records pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while leading the State Department, is asking for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the meeting.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, said he believes Lynch will remain objective in her role but would have advised against the meeting, which he says sends the wrong signal even if it was “a brief, casual, social meeting with the former president.”.