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.
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” U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, where Republican lawmakers will continue their effort to question her regarding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state”.
Lynch, who accepted the recommendation of FBI Director James Comey last week with no questions asked, offered no insight during her testimony and repeatedly refused to provide lawmakers with answers to their queries.
Instead, she says Bill Clinton talked “at length” about his grandchildren. But Ms. Lynch gave no indication that she would be more forthcoming about the F.B.I.’s reasoning on the Clinton email issue.
FBI Director James Comey appeared before the Government Oversight and Reform committee last week, explaining why the bureau had recommended against prosecuting the former secretary of state or any of her aides for using a private email server to conduct official business – which included the sending and receiving of classified information.
Pushed to elaborate, she said, “Again, I would have to refer you to Director Comey’s statements with the basis for his recommendations”. She said it would be “inappropriate to comment further” on the specific facts of the case or the decision-making process.
“He’s chosen to provide detailed statements, and I would refer you to those statements”, Lynch said.
But on the question of the Clinton investigation, she was determinedly mum.
While Republicans fumed Tuesday, Democrats on the committee decried what they saw as politically-motivated theatrics at a time when the United States faces life-and-death issues of public safety and justice.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the panel’s chairman, ripped the decision during his opening remarks as having “defied logic and the law”. “But Secretary Clinton is not facing prosecution for her actions”. Since then, several high-profile incidents have occurred between minorities and law enforcement, including the high profile deaths of several African Americans while in police custody or during arrest – an issue Lynch has promised to tackle.
Rep. Gohmert: Ok, well, if you’re not going to answer the question…
You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. “It would not be appropriate in my role to discuss the specific facts”, she said at another.
She said it was an unscheduled encounter and the two did not discuss the Hillary Clinton email investigation, but Lynch also expressed regret and acknowledged the meeting had “cast a shadow” on the public perception of the Justice Department’s independence.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch denounced the sniper attack that killed five police officers in Dallas on Thursday, urging people to reflect on “the country that we want to build and the kind of society that we are choosing to pass on to our children”. For the protection of AP and its licensors, content may not be copied, altered or redistributed in any form.
