Lynch testified before Congress amid a roiling national debate over police violence and as House Republicans seek a Justice Department perjury investigation of Hillary Clinton.
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The State Department said Wednesday that it plans to review and make public several thousand emails that FBI investigators recovered from the computer server used by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Lynch also said she never spoke to either Clinton about the investigation.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch demonstrated that she knows how to dodge questions.
“There are only two real dynamics [of] government”, he said. I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation.
“This defies logic and the law”, said Goodlatte of Comey’s announcement, adding that he questioned the “timing and circumstances”.
“Were a rank-and-file federal employee to do what Secretary Clinton did, they would face severe punishment, including termination, revocation of security clearances, or criminal prosecution”, Goodlatte said.
Clinton knew she had an unauthorized server in her NY home. A recent poll taken by ABC News shows that a healthy majority of people believe that the FBI’s decision not to charge Hillary was wrong (most likely because they also believe she is guilty).
Lynch’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee comes a day after House Republicans asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Clinton had lied to Congress.
“As we gather here this morning, that sense of safety has been shaken by the series of devastating events that rocked our nation last week”, Lynch said.
The Arizona congressman with 12 years on the House Judiciary Committee threw in the towel after just one question to Attorney General Loretta Lynch during her testimony Tuesday in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Democratic lawmakers at the hearing largely avoided the subject, asking Lynch about gun control and policing reforms.
Lynch’s department is investigating Sterling’s death and could open a probe of Castile’s. “It would not be appropriate in my role to discuss the specific facts”, she said at another. No conversation in that nature at all, she said. “There is no other reason for a detached, neutral attorney general to say, “This is the law, these are the facts, we applied them and this is the result we got'”.
Gowdy presents Lynch with an opportunity to further explain the government’s position and she fails, miserably.
Lynch gave similarly guarded responses to their inquiries as well, at one point rebuffing a question by Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) about the NRA by saying that the shooting of police officers in Dallas “doesn’t lend itself to aphorisms”.
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“Today apparently Secretary Hillary Clinton’s email takes precedence over gun violence and civil rights”, said Rep. John Conyers of MI, the panel’s top Democrat. Robin Kelly and Luis Gutiérrez.
