WASHINGTON – Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will support the recommendations from prosecutors and others leading probes into the use of a private email server by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, a Justice Department official said.<\/p>\n
Lynch’s statement is expected later Friday during a discussion with Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.<\/p>\n
Such a review process outline by Lynch would remove chances that a political appointee could ultimately decide the fate of the case and potentially overrule the investigators.<\/p>\n
A Justice Department official said the attorney general will accept the “determinations and findings of career prosecutors and lawyers as well as FBI investigators and director [James B.] Comey.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity in advance of Lynch’s remarks. The New York Times first reported the expected Lynch comments.<\/p>\n
The issue of potential political intervention in the email case has sharpened in recent days after a private – and apparently chance – meeting between Lynch and former President Bill Clinton earlier this week at an airport in Arizona.<\/p>\n
Lynch said the meeting was not planned, and occurred when Clinton made a surprise visit to her plane on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.<\/p>\n
Lynch on Wednesday described the conversation as a general chat about “his grandchildren and his travels and things like that.” She insisted that the email probe was not mentioned.<\/p>\n
Republicans did not directly challenge Lynch’s account of the meeting, but claimed that it raised the appearance of a possible conflicts of interest and potential blows to the overall integrity of the probe.<\/p>\n
The FBI is expected to make recommendations later this month to the Justice Department on the case as Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, prepares for November’s election.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will support the recommendations from prosecutors and others leading probes into the use of a private email server by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, a Justice Department official said. Lynch’s statement is expected later Friday during a discussion with Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":80330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n