Posted by Tina
File this under covert meeting. the only reason we know about it is because the local ABC station happened to be at the airport when Billy arrived. The two met inside a plane on the tarmac for thirty minutes. What do you suppose was on their minds? After the meeting Billy got on a private plane and took off. Lynch had a meeting with local law enforcement. When questioned, Lynch said that she and Bill talked about grandchildren and golf. Reeaally? Nothing else came up?
Words like conflict of interest and impropriety come to mind for Lynch. She should recuse herself immediately. If she were John Ashcroft she would be hounded until she stepped down. Old Billy has done his wife no favors. The unanswered question will always be…how much did he offer her?
The scum just keeps growing and growing. This party needs to be slammed to the ground and if the American people don’t stand up and reject the entire bunch of lying conniving slime we are finished as a free nation.
It was very, very stupid of them to have this private meeting. Even if they are telling the truth about their conversation, this creates the appearance of impropriety. I agree that she should recuse herself.
Bubba and Loretta starring in the newest version of “Snakes on a Plane . . .”
Kudos to ABC15 in Phoenix! We know Bubba is an admitted perjurer, but if Lynch can’t see the impropriety of this secret meeting, she has no business being Attorney General. Period!
Pond scum is a vital and fascinating part of wet land eco-systems. Political pond scum not so much so. I have been studying both for decades. My conclusion thus far is that Rat, liberal, left-wing , progressive pond scum have no social, moral, economical, political, or ecological purpose or redeeming qualities. Not even as detritus.
While Lynch did not recuse herself, I was impressed with her response today. She took responsibility, did not attack her critics, and acknowledged that she had created the appearance of impropriety, while pledging not to overrule the recommendations of the FBI in Clinton’s case.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations that career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges in the case.
“I will be accepting their recommendations,” Ms. Lynch said in an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival. She said that “the case will be resolved by the same team that has been working on it from the beginning.”
The attorney general said she had decided several months ago to defer to the recommendations of her staff and of the director of the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest.
The meeting with Mr. Clinton, she acknowledged, only deepened those questions, and she said she felt compelled to publicly explain her reasoning to try to put concerns to rest.
“I think that people have a whole host of reasons to have questions about how we in government do our business, and how we handle business and how we handle matters,” Ms. Lynch said. “And I think that, again, I understand that my meeting on the plane with former President Clinton could give them another reason to have questions and concerns.”
While she insisted that the meeting was a purely social encounter, Ms. Lynch said, “I certainly wouldn’t do it again.”
Ms. Lynch described the questions raised by her meeting as personally distressing for her because they stained the reputation of the Justice Department. “The fact that the meeting that I had is now casting a shadow over how people are going to view that work is something that I take seriously, and deeply and painfully,” she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html?_r=0
She was splendid: “What was I supposed to do, slam the plane door in his face?”
And Bill’s in for another sock in the eye, metaphorically speaking.
She certainly did say all the right things. The staging was brilliant….Art Linkletter and an episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things! So lighthearted and fun and not at all serious…nothing that would reflect the gravity of the situation.
Nice political play…lousy in terms of showing respect for the rule of law or her position as AG.
You’re just bummed cause she pulled it off … splendidly.
Bill is a doofus (possibly an unconsciously and wickedly sabotaging doofus) and Loretta will go with whatever her prosecutors come up with. Case closed … to all but the rabid right.
Tina: ” So lighthearted and fun and not at all serious…nothing that would reflect the gravity of the situation.”
There is no way you actually read her statement and came to the conclusion that her statements were “light-hearted” or ignored the gravity of the situation. If you did, I am seriously worried about you. I know extreme partisanship is poisonous to reading comprehension, but this is a whole other level. This is partisan-induced illiteracy; possibly even partisan-induced hallucination.
Be honest, Tina. Did you read Lynch’s comments? Do you still believe they were “light-hearted” and didn’t reflect the gravity of the situation? If so, why? Cite the exact sentence that was light-hearted or lacked gravity. I read the whole thing, and can’t find it. You are seeing things that are not there.