By Daniel John Sobieski
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
Arguably, the most interesting part of the testimony of James Comey, the cowardly lion of the criminal justice system, before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday is not that President Trump was cleared of even a scintilla of corruption and obstruction of justice but that President Obama\u2019s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, is up to her eyeballs in both. As theDaily Caller<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general under Barack Obama,\u00a0pressured former FBI Director James Comey to downplay the Clinton email server investigation and only refer to it as a \u201cmatter,\u201d Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.<\/p>\n Comey said\u00a0that when he asked Lynch if she was going to authorize him to confirm the existence of the Clinton email investigation, her answer was, \u201cYes, but don\u2019t call it that. Call it a matter.\u201d When Comey asked why, he said, Lynch wouldn\u2019t give him an explanation. \u201cJust call it a matter,\u201d she\u00a0said\u2026.<\/p>\n Earlier in his testimony, Comey said Lynch instructed Comey not to call the criminal investigation into the Clinton server a criminal investigation. Instead, Lynch told Comey to call it a \u201cmatter,\u201d Comey said, \u201cwhich confused me.\u201d<\/p>\n Comey cited that pressure from Lynch to downplay the investigation as one of the reasons he held a press conference to recommend the Department of Justice not seek to indict Clinton.<\/p>\n Comey also cited Lynch\u2019s secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton as a reason he chose to hold the press conference, he said, as he was concerned about preserving the independence of the FBI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is far worse than President Trump asking Comey in a private conversation to wrap up the Flynn investigation after Flynn was dismissed as National Security Adviser. This was a direct order by Comey\u2019s immediate superior to align his rhetoric with the Clinton campaign spin. This is what Comey did, calling it a \u201cmatter\u201d and not a criminal investigation, which is the only thing the FBI does. Couple this submissive compliance to an order to help the Clinton campaign with their spin with the meeting on the tarmac between Lunch and Bill Clinton, the husband of the target of that criminal investigation, and you have an obvious case for charging Lynch with obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n If Comey was concerned about preserving the integrity of the FBI, he wouldn\u2019t have leaked the memo of his private conversation with President Trump to the New York Times<\/em> through a third party. That memo, prepared on a government computer by a government employee on government time, is the property of the U.S. government and the U.S. taxpayer. Its unauthorized dissemination is a clear violation of the Federal Records Act and executive privilege. Comey was charged to find leakers, not be the leaker-in-chief.<\/p>\n Just as he didn\u2019t have the authority to leak the memo, he didn\u2019t have the authority to go before the American people and declare that the multiple felonies committed by Hilary Clinton while she was Secretary of State were not prosecutable due to lack of intent. Not only was he wrong on the law, which does not require intent, but his job is to gather evidence not to recommend prosecution or not. If Comey wanted to preserve the independence of the FBI, he wouldn\u2019t have held the press conference giving Hillary Clinton a pass. He would have thrown the evidence on Lynch\u2019s desk and told her to do her job. He bailed both Clinton and Lynch out and gave the Clinton campaign a boost.<\/p>\n Lynch ordered Comey to drop the word \u201cinvestigation.\u201d Did she also order him to drop the investigation itself and take the hit for doing so? Questions still remain as to why Comey did not attend the final Clinton interview, why the interview was not recorded, why Clinton was not under oath, and why obvious follow-up questions were not asked. It would seem that Comey, perhaps at the order of Lynch, was doing everything that would benefit the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n Let us not forget another example of the tangled web woven between the FBI and the Clinton campaign — the relationship between Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. As Caherine Herridge of Fox News reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n A top FBI official who came under scrutiny last year over his wife\u2019s campaign contributions from a Hillary Clinton ally did not list those 2015 donations or his wife\u2019s salary in financial disclosure forms, according to records reviewed by Fox News.<\/p>\n The records, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, show FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe left the box blank for wife Dr. Jill McCabe’s salary, as a doctor with Commonwealth Emergency Physicians. And there is no documentation of the hundreds of thousands of campaign funds she received in her unsuccessful 2015 Virginia state Senate race.<\/p>\n As first reported by The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, Clinton confidant and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe urged McCabe\u2019s wife to run for statewide office shortly after news reports were published that Hillary Clinton used a private email server and address for all her government business while serving as secretary of State.<\/p>\n For the reporting period of October through November 2015, McCabe’s campaign filings<\/a> show she received $467,500 from Common Good VA, a political action committee controlled by McAuliffe, as well as an additional $292,500 from a second Democratic PAC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, isn\u2019t that special? This is the swamp President Trump wants to drain. Let us also deal with Swamp Thing — Loretta Lynch.<\/p>\n Remember that Comey\u2019s exoneration of Hillary came just days after Lynch met with Bill on the tarmac. Can you say \u201ccollusion\u201d and \u201cobstruction of justice\u201d? The June 27, 2016 tarmac meeting on Lynch\u2019s plane in Phoenix itself, in the light of Comey\u2019s admission of Lynch\u2019s pressure on him, is worthy of a special prosecutor all unto itself:, a fact not lost on Judicial Watch\u2019s Tom Fitton<\/a>:<\/p>\n Lynch was caught off guard when a local Phoenix reporter asked her about the meeting at a press conference. She claimed at the time the discussion with the former President, which lasted 30 minutes, was simply about golf and grandchildren. After Hillary Clinton lost the White House to Donald Trump in November, Lynch said the meeting was regrettable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe infamous tarmac meeting between President Clinton and AG Lynch is a vivid example of why many Americans believe the Obama administration\u2019s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton was rigged,\u201d Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement about the new lawsuit. \u201cNow it will be up to Attorney General Sessions at the Trump Justice Department to finally shed some light on this subversion of justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u2019s hope so. Let\u2019s hope this DOJ will focus on real crimes and real obstruction of justice. It may turn out that Loretta Lynch and James Comey interfered in the 2016 election more than Vladimir Putin could even have dreamed of.<\/p>\n