According to the Times, the investigation has bipartisan support.<\/p>\n \n\u201cSen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the committee, said the investigation is bipartisan. <\/strong>The letter to Ms. Lynch is signed by ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and also by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, the chairman and ranking member of the key investigative subcommittee.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLetters also went to Clinton campaign staffer Amanda Renteria and Leonard Benardo and Gail Scovell at the Open Society Foundations. Mr. Benardo was reportedly on an email chain from the then-head of the Democratic National Committee suggesting Ms. Lynch had given assurances to Ms. Renteria, the campaign staffer, that the Clinton probe wouldn\u2019t \u201cgo too far.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n During testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI Director James Comey said his suspicions about Lynch\u2019s cozy relationship with the Clintons prompted him to unilaterally announce the close of the Clinton investigation last summer. According to Comey, Lynch leaned on him to soften his language when discussing the investigation, asking him to refer to the probe as a \u201cmatter,\u201d mirror language used by the campaign, instead of as \u201can investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Comey also said the suspicious meeting between Clinton and Lynch raised questions about her objectivity that could\u2019ve compromised the bureau\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n \nLANKFORD: Then you made a comment earlier a the attorney general, the previous attorney general asking you about the investigation on the Clinton e-mails saying you were asked to not call it an investigation anymore. But call it a matter. You said that confused you. You can give us additional details on that?<\/p>\n COMEY: Well, it concerned me because we were at the point where we refused to confirm the existence as we typically do of an investigation for months.<\/strong> And was getting to a place where that looked silly because the campaigns we’re talking about interacting with the FBI in the course of our work. The Clinton campaign at the time was using all kinds of euphemisms, security matters, things like that for what was going on.<\/strong><\/p>\n We were getting to a place where the attorney general and I were both going to testify and talk publicly about it I wanted to know was she going to authorize us to confirm we have an investigation. She said yes, don’t call it that, call it a matter. I said why would I do that? She said, just call it a matter. You look back in hindsight, if I looked back and said this isn’t a hill worth dying on so I just said the press is going to completely ignore it. <\/strong>That’s what happened when I said we opened a matter.<\/p>\n They all reported the FBI has an investigation open. So that concerned me because that language tracked the way the campaign was talking<\/strong> about the FBI’s work and that’s concerning.<\/p>\n LANKFORD: You gave impression that the campaign was somehow using the language as the FBI because you were handed the campaign language?<\/strong><\/p>\n COMEY: I don’t know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way it was describing that.<\/strong> It was inaccurate. We had an investigation open for the federal bureau of investigation, we had an investigation open at the time. That gave me a queasy feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So who was obstructing or trying to interfere there?<\/p>\n \nComey said that this troubled him greatly and convinced him, \u201cI have to step away from the department if we\u2019re too close this case credibly.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user245717\/imageroot\/2017\/06\/10\/lynch_0.JPG\")
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