\nOne would think that the Clinton Crime Family would be extra special careful not to commit any more crimes during such a highly scrutinized campaign season. \u00a0But, “NO”, these folks go out of their way to present the appearance of impropriety and corruption at every turn.<\/p>\n
The following two articles explain 2 seemingly unrelated events which have just occurred in the Clinton camp. \u00a0Each of them provides more fodder about the pervasive malfeasance and profound\u00a0untrustworthiness\u00a0associated with the entire Clinton clan. \u00a0It’s as though these folks were hardwired form the very beginning to run a full-blown political crime family. \u00a0 The Cosa Nostra, the Camorra, and the Ndrangheta are surely envious that the Clinton Mafia enjoys the protection of the largest security force in the world. \u00a0Now that’s some\u00a0Protection Racket<\/em>!<\/p>\n State of the Nation<\/a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n Bob Unruh Bill and Hillary Clinton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A brief meeting U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch <\/a>held with Bill Clinton, whose spouse, probable Democrat candidate for president Hillary Clinton, is being investigated for possible criminal charges, is prompting a groundswell of demands that she now recuse herself from any decision in the case.<\/p>\n WND reported on Wednesday that Lynch confessed<\/a> to meeting with Bill Clinton briefly at the Phoenix airport, which raised questions in itself because of the time and location.<\/p>\n At the time, Lynch claimed they talked about grandchildren, travels and the like \u2013 but not the looming case that could result in federal criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her decision to run secret government information through an unsecured and hackable private email system.<\/p>\n Now, Michael Cutler at Front Page Mag<\/a> is offering a simple solution to all the questions of propriety that are being raised.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stakes could not be higher \u2013 yet Loretta Lynch acted in a way that she should have clearly understood created that illusion of wrong-doing. \u2026 It is impossible to understand her motivation or what she was thinking as she sat on her airplane meeting with Bill Clinton \u2013 but one thing is now perfectly clear, she must recuse herself from any involvement in the decision making process where the investigation\/prosecution of Hillary Clinton is concerned,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump called Lynch\u2019s move \u201chorrible.\u201d<\/p>\n And Cutler continued, \u201cThe appearance this meeting creates, in and of itself, calls into question the judgment of the attorney general of the United States \u2013 America\u2019s \u2018Top Cop\u2019 who sets the tone for law enforcement for the entire federal government and, as a consequence, for law enforcement agencies at all levels from coast to coast and border to border.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd make no mistake \u2013 appearances can be critical. This was a message that was repeatedly hammered home by my bosses when I served as a special ggent for the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service),\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n He stressed the importance of avoiding even the appearance of impropriety.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Lynch claims that nothing was discussed that involved Hillary Clinton \u2013 we only have her word for that. Furthermore, as the attorney general she would certainly have to cognizant about the appearance of a major impropriety that her meeting with Bill Clinton created. The obvious question is why would she do this? Was she so fascinated about Clinton\u2019s golf game or his grandchildren that she was willing to create the illusion of wrong-doing? Was the meeting conducted on her airplane to make certain that no one would be able to overhear what was said? If so, what was the true<\/i> topic of the conversation?\u201d<\/p>\n At the Examiner,<\/a> the report explained what the situation looked like, and quoted analyst Steve Doocy on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d saying \u201cIt looks like the fix is in.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCamps for both Clinton and Lynch are calling this an \u2018unplanned encounter,\u2019 but that is not the way a sizable portion of the public see this. Clinton saw Lynch\u2019s plane on the tarmac and wanted to say hello, so he took the opportunity to board her plane\u2026 or so the story goes. But unfortunately that story isn\u2019t sitting well with a lot of folks today. \u2018Fox and Friends\u2019 reports there are calls for Lynch to recuse herself from this case.\u201d<\/p>\n The questions seem to be growing despite Lynch\u2019s claim, after the meeting, when she said, \u201cWe talked about former Attorney General Janet Reno, for example, whom we both know, but there was no discussion of any matter pending for the department or any matter pending for any other body. There was no discussion of Benghazi, no discussion of the State Department emails, by way of example.\u201d<\/p>\n Added the report, \u201cThis explanation has many wondering if Lynch really believes Americans are that gullible? Even if you give Lynch the benefit of the doubt and say, OK \u2026 golf and babies was the topic of this conversation, the question is still there\u2026. why do this?\u201d<\/p>\n Former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams, at PH Media,<\/a> also sounded off.<\/p>\n \u201cWhenever Bill Clinton gets on a plane to meet a woman, he\u2019s usually up to no good,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAttorney General Loretta Lynch said her impromptu tarmac summit at Phoenix Sky Harbor was a purely social affair. Golf and grandchildren were on the agenda, she said \u2013 and not how a home-brew server crammed with classified information ended up in Bill\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, the attorney general normally doesn\u2019t meet with family members of a target in an active FBI criminal investigation. Hillary is just that \u2013 a target in an FBI criminal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cMany won\u2019t believe Lynch and Clinton only discussed grandkids and golf in her cozy jet. But I do. That\u2019s all they needed to discuss for Bill to interfere with a criminal prosecution. Sophisticated insiders don\u2019t need to use clumsy and explicit language. Merely having the tarmac summit interferes with the investigation, even if golf and grandkids were the only topics discussed. The tarmac summit sent a signal. It is a signal to all of the hardworking FBI agents who have the goods on Hillary.<\/p>\n \u201cThe attorney general has made it clear what team she is on. The attorney general isn\u2019t on the side of justice. She\u2019s on the Democratic Party team. This is the unspoken message from Lynch to all of the FBI agents on the case and to all the front-line lawyers at the Justice Department: When you send your recommendation to refer Hillary\u2019s case to the grand jury, you had better realize your burden to convince me I should sign off on a grand jury request is higher than you thought. These are my friends.\u201d<\/p>\n David Axelrod, longtime adviser to Obama, even suggested it was \u201cfoolish to create such optics.\u201d<\/p>\n And Eric Levtiz at New York Mag<\/a> noted the meeting was held \u201cfor some stupid reason.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRepublicans immediately demanded Lynch recuse herself from the investigation, arguing that the meeting constituted an \u2018appearance of a conflict of interest,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n And John Steele Gordon at Commentary Magazine<\/a> expressed astonishment.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat on earth could Attorney General Loretta Lynch have been thinking when she met privately with former President Bill Clinton on Monday in Phoenix? The two met at the Phoenix airport when she and her husband landed in a government plane on a tour of the nation\u2019s law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n \u201cThis meeting spectacularly fails the test that originated with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said, \u2018It is not enough for a judge to be above impropriety. He must be above the appearance of impropriety.\u2019 You don\u2019t have to be rabidly anti-Clinton or hopelessly paranoid to think that they might have talked about more than golf and grandkids.\u201d<\/p>\n He even suggested Lynch was \u201clooking for a means of recusing herself from having to make a decision that, for her, will be a no-win one\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n David Harsanyi, at the Federalist,<\/a> blasted Dems\u2019 suggestions it was an \u201coptics\u201d problem.<\/p>\n \u201cThe nation\u2019s top law enforcement official and the former president and husband of the presumptive nominee, who is under federal investigation, had a talk. And rather than conceding that such a private encounter is at the very least a conflict of interest, Democrats preemptively complained about the \u2018optics.\u2019 Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., for instance, told CNN that Lynch \u2018should have steered clear\u2019 and that the meeting \u2018sends the wrong signal.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAcknowledging that the meeting was bad \u2018optics\u2019 is a way for Democrats to intimate that while some rubes might get the wrong idea, there\u2019s really nothing unethical about it. But they can\u2019t know that\u2019s true, can they? One of the parties involved is Bill Clinton, who\u2019s already been impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice. The other is Loretta Lynch, who\u2019s politicized virtually every major case under her watch.\u201d<\/p>\n He added, \u201cLynch might be Mother Teresa for all we know, but we still have ethical codes for a reason. Any truly impartial attorney general would have told the former president, \u2018Why don\u2019t we table this meeting until after the high-profile, politically charged criminal investigation of your wife is over.\u2019 Would that really have been so difficult?\u201d<\/p>\n WND had reported<\/a> that KNXV-TV in Phoenix<\/a> cited sources at the city\u2019s Sky Harbor International Airport in reporting Lynch met privately with Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n Lynch later confirmed the meeting to the television station.<\/p>\n That\u2019s as the FBI, which she ovresees, is investigating Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email setup, which bypassed the State Department\u2019s security system. The emails remain the subject of multiple investigations and lawsuits, with Hillary Clinton\u2019s aides already giving depositions in one legal challenge.<\/p>\n That case, by Judicial Watch, could require Hillary Clinton to testify under oath.<\/p>\n In the latest in the investigation<\/a>, top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin expressed frustration at her former boss\u2019 use of the home-based private email server to run the State Department.<\/p>\n Judicial Watch has released the transcript of Abedin\u2019s deposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Abedin now is vice chairwoman of Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign. She was deposed by attorneys for Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information lawsuit that seeks records covering her employment status.<\/p>\n Abedin acknowledged using ClintonEmail.com for official business but said she generally used her official State.gov account. State Department personnel would communicate with her at ClintonEmail.com when there were problems with the State.gov system. When asked if Clinton ever objected to her using ClintonEmail.com to conduct State Department business, Abedin answered, \u201cNo, not that I remember. No.\u201d<\/p>\n Creating the image of a bias, however, is not novel in Washington. In the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case creating same-sex \u201cmarriage,\u201d justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Ginsburg both expressed public advocacy for the status while the case was pending by performing those ceremonies.<\/p>\n They were asked to recuse from the case because of their public endorsement of one side, and they both refused to even acknowledge the request, made by a legal foundation.<\/p>\n On the Lynch-Bill Clinton meeting, a White House spokesman claimed both Lynch and Obama are committed to having a fair investigation.<\/p>\n ___ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n The DAILY CALLER<\/p>\n Department of Justice officials filed a motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s four top aides and officials with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a closely allied public relations firm that Bill Clinton helped launch.<\/span><\/p>\n If the court permits the delay, the public won\u2019t be able to read the communications until October 2018, about 22 months into her prospective first term as President.\u00a0The four senior Clinton aides involved were Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael Fuchs, Ambassador-At-Large Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy<\/span><\/a> and Terms of Use<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The State Department originally estimated that 6,000 emails and other documents were exchanged by the aides with the Clinton Foundation. But a series of \u201cerrors\u201d the department told the court about Wednesday evening now mean the total has grown to\u00a0\u201c34,116 potentially responsive documents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n During Clinton\u2019s four years as America\u2019s chief foreign diplomat, her aides communicated with officials at the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings where Bill Clinton was formerly both a client and paid consultant, on the average of \u00a0700 times each month, according to the Justice Department filing.<\/span><\/p>\n David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, which requested the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, called the delay \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d and charged that \u201cthe State Department is using taxpayer dollars to protect their candidate, Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe American people have a right to see these emails before the election,\u201d Bossie told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a President Obama-appointed judge, had previously ordered the State Department to release the requested documents by July 21. But Department of Justice lawyers informed Contreras Wednesday night that\u00a0\u201cthe [State] department discovered errors in the manner in which the searches had been conducted in order to capture documents potentially responsive to plaintiff\u2019s request.\u201d The motion was filed by Justice Department attorney Joseph Borson on behalf of the State Department.<\/span><\/p>\n Borson also provided new details about how few resources the State Department has devoted to answering 106 separate Freedom of Information Act requests that are pending before it, many of them ordered by federal judges. Only 71 \u201cpart-time\u201d retired foreign service officers are being used to review all of the pending FOIA requests.<\/span><\/p>\n The State Department also revealed that despite the large number of requests seeking information about Secretary Clinton\u2019s ties to the Clinton Foundation over the last two years, the Obama administration has not requested additional funds for reviewers.<\/span><\/p>\n The amount budgeted has remained at about $16 million over the last several years, according to Eric Stein, co-director of the State Department Office of Information Programs and Services.\u00a0The department claims with its current workforce, it would only be able to release 500 documents each month.<\/span><\/p>\n The FBI has a \u201cpublic corruption\u201d probe underway investigating whether Clinton used her position to benefit or recruit donors to the Clinton Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n Bossie told TheDCNF that \u201cthe conflicts of interest that were made possible by the activities of Hillary Clinton\u2019s State Department in tandem with the Clinton Foundation are of significant importance to the public and the law enforcement community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the Clinton Foundation, Citizens United requested communications between the four aides and Teneo Holdings, the firm created by Doug Band, Bill Clinton\u2019s personal aide in the White House and thereafter as a former chief executive. The former President was a paid consultant to Teneo until 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n Huma Abedin simultaneously served as an employee for both Teneo and as deputy chief of staff to Clinton at the State Department in 2012, an issue which Congress has raised as a key conflict of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJuly 30, 2016<\/p>\nAG\u2019S ETHICS QUESTIONED AFTER MEET-UP WITH BILL CLINTON<\/h1>\n
Lynch responsible for deciding if Hillary charged \u2013 now faces recusal demand<\/h2>\n
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\nhttp:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/06\/ags-ethics-questioned-after-meet-up-with-bill-clinton\/#E39YdMmCbtGesq0D.99<\/a><\/p>\nEXCLUSIVE: State Department Won\u2019t Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months<\/span><\/h2>\n