Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton on Monday night at the Phoenix international airport, ABC 15 reported.
The meeting came hours before the House Benghazi Committee on Tuesday released a report on the 2012 terror attacks in Libya. Lynch told reporters the two did not discuss the issue.
"Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels, and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix," Lynch said.
"There was no discussion on any matter pending before the Department or any matter pending with any other body, there was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of State Department emails, by way of example I would say it was current news of the day, the Brexit decision and what it would mean."
Sources told ABC 15 that the meeting lasted about 30 minutes.
The Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State, which was revealed as part of the House investigation into the Benghazi attacksThis administration no longer even cares about appearances, let alone following the rule of law.
.Loretta Lynch, at a press conference yesterday, termed the San Bernardino shootings a "wonderful opportunity" to change the nature of police work:Yes, the wonderful opportunity to push for more useless gun control to divert attention away from the laughable leftist argument that it was 'workplace violence' and not an Islamic inspired terrorist attack.
We’re at the point where these issues have come together really like never before in law enforcement thought and in our nation’s history and it gives us a wonderful opportunity and a wonderful moment to really make significant change.
In remarks before the Muslim Advocates Dinner Thursday night, Attorney General Loretta Lynch told attendees that the Justice Department will take action against “anti-Muslim rhetoric” and “violent talk.”
14 Americans murdered in Islamic terror attack. DOJ's top priorities: federal prosecution of bullying, rhetoric, and "profiling."
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2015
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was charged Thursday with illegally leaking confidential information, then lying about it under oath and deploying aides as spies to keep a step ahead of the criminal investigation against her.
While not unexpected, the criminal charges filed by Montgomery County District Risa Vetri Ferman dealt a stunning blow to a woman who swept into office in a landslide with a promise to shake up the status quo.
Gov. Wolf, a Democrat like Kane, immediately called for her resignation. Kane said she would not quit.
"A resignation would be an admission of guilt and I'm not guilty," she said in a statement.
Kane stood defiant and increasingly isolated after Ferman unveiled new evidence to buttress a grand jury's finding that Kane had illegally planted a damaging newspaper story to damage a critic, then perjured herself when questioned about the scheme.
And Ferman also added a new allegation: illegal surveillance of e-mails.
Patrick Reese, a former small-town police chief and the head of Kane's personal security detail, was charged Thursday with the illegal spying.
In a 42-page affidavit of probable cause, Ferman painted a deeply negative portrait of Kane as a Nixonian figure bent on political revenge, angry at her staff and eager to spy on judges, reporters, prosecutors and her own aides.
"This is war," Kane declared in an e-mail cited in the affidavit. Those words were written early on as she prepared to plant a negative news story designed to damage a former state prosecutor she viewed as an enemy.
Kane also went to great lengths to impede the grand jury investigation of her conduct, prosecutors said. At one point, they said, she threatened to fire top staffers in her office if they didn't join her in fighting back.
"If I get taken out of here in handcuffs, what do you think my last act would be?" the affidavit quoted her as telling her chief of staff, meaning that she would fire him and others.
The charges - one felony court of perjury and seven misdemeanors, including official oppression and obstruction - could doom a political career that was once on a steep ascent.
Kane, 49, the first Democrat and woman to be elected attorney general, is now at odds with the state's top Democrat, Wolf. He said Thursday:
"I am calling on her to step aside, step down as attorney general, because I think she cannot do what she has to do as the top law enforcement officer in Pennsylvania while she's facing these serious charges."
State Rep. Frank Dermody, who leads the Democrats in the GOP-controlled state House, also suggested she step down.
"The charges will make it extremely difficult for her to lead the Office of Attorney General under these circumstances," Dermody, of the Pittsburgh area, said in a statement. "This is not good for that office or for the Commonwealth."
Kane is the first attorney general to be charged with a crime since Ernest Preate Jr., a Republican, pleaded guilty to a corruption charge in 1995 and resigned.
The criminal charges against Kane come nearly nine months after a grand jury first recommended to Ferman that Kane be arrested. The statewide grand jury met in Norristown, the county seat of Montgomery County, and thus made its referral to Ferman, the county district attorney.Read more
WASHINGTON — Senators on Thursday reopened negotiations on a stalled bill to combat human trafficking, while bickering intensified among Democrats and Republicans, and even the White House, over the stalemate that has ensnared the attorney general nomination of Loretta E. Lynch.
President Obama on Friday vented his frustration over the delay in confirming his attorney general pick Loretta Lynch, calling the Senate’s handling of her nomination “embarrassing.”
Three years ago, then-U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch crafted a soft-touch deferred-prosecution deal for Europe's largest bank, HSBC, which had only been caught in the largest drug-money-laundering case in history.NEXT
Opposition to Barack Obama’s nominee for US attorney general over her handling of the HSBC scandal is growing in Congress after she admitted deciding not to prosecute the bank for money laundering offences without hearing from key regulators or a separate investigation into tax secrecy.There is a lot more to the HSBC scandal and even Loretta Lynch's handling of other cases, but the biggest concern over Lynch's appointment as AG concerns her ability to act in the best interest of the country not as a protector of the POTUS and a rubber stamp for his agenda.
A document obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act request proves that Justice Department colluded with the White House and CBS to silence a Sharyl Attkisson investigation into Fast and Furious, and a negative piece about Rep. Darryl Issa by then National Journal Reporter Susan Davis was actually planted by the DOJ.Our initial review of the documents shows the DOJ and White House targeted then-CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson :More on Operation Fast and Furious, the Coverup and LIES by the Obama Administration :
On October 4, 2011, Holder’s top press aide Tracy Schmaler tells White House Deputy Press Sectary Eric Schultz, “I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic] editor and reaching out to Scheiffer. She’s out of control”
Schultz responded, “Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG.”
Schultz also detailed to Schmaler that he was working with a journalist (Susan Davis, formerly of the National Journal) to target Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA), the House Republican leading the charge on Fast and Furious:
“And I sent NJ’s Susan Davis your way. She’s writing on Issa/FandF and I said you could load her up on the leaks, etc.”
(Davis authored a critical profile of Issa a few weeks later.)
This one email chain implicates both the Obama White House and the Department of Justice in an effort to secretly undermine a congressional investigation and to suppress critical media reporting of the Obama administration. No wonder Obama waited until after he was safely reelected (and even after this year’s elections) to finally release this material that documents obstruction and abuse at the highest levels