The mainstream media was quick to move on, but questions still abound concerning the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information while serving as Secretary of State.
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Sanders had earlier said that he would not endorse Clinton for president until they meet and he could measure her commitment to combating wealth inequality, and other issues that powered his presidential campaign. Lynch then said that she would accept whatever recommendation the Federal Bureau of Investigation and her prosecutors presented on Clinton.
“Her extreme carelessness suggests she can not be trusted with the nation’s most sensitive secrets if she is nevertheless elected president”, said Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Republican.
Lynch repeatedly referred the committee to last week’s testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who gave an unusually detailed account of the investigation in a almost five-hour appearance before another House panel and described the rationale for his advice that no charges be brought. “The matter was handled like any other matter”. Bob Goodlatte, strenuously criticized Lynch over the investigation’s outcome, charging that rubber-stamping the FBI’s recommendation “does not seem to be a responsible way to uphold your constitutionally sworn oath”.
The announcement immediately drew criticism from Republicans and raised concerns that Clinton was treated on a double standard.
“I agreed to say hello”, Lynch testified. After failing to get Lynch to answer his questions, Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona remarked on “your prodigious dissimulation skills” before withdrawing further questions.
Goodlatte, the panel’s chairman, said Clinton’s carelessness with classified information “suggests she can not be trusted with the nation’s most sensitive secrets if she is nevertheless elected president”. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called the hearing a political “joy ride” in the midst of a national plague of gun violence.
Without question, Mrs. Clinton has work to do between now and November to persuade the American people that her handling of sensitive material at the State Department is not only something that she regrets, but that she would never repeat.
“Because your answer tells the American people that after the FBI Director told you that Ms. Clinton had been extremely careless with at least 110 emails marked as top secret, secret or classified and may have jeopardized the lives of actual Americans, and told you that she made numerous false public statements about sending, receiving or turning over classified materials, you might want to apply for a job with her?” he said.
Of course, Clinton is dreaming if she believes she’s heard the last of emails.
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“You have a problem, madame attorney general”, he said.
