A Big Deal

It's a big deal ... a really big deal!

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and ex-President Bill Clinton recently schmoozed in private for at least a half an hour in an "impromptu" but highly suspicious meeting on Lynch's airplane on the Phoenix airport tarmac ... clearly not an easy thing to pull off ... see: EarthLink News Item. It has been even suggested that this meeting was requested by Clinton. Lynch has averred that their conversation consisted of personal reflections about travel, family, golf, etc. and did not deal with Hellery Clinton's e-mail server investigation or her Benghazi problems. But she didn't include the Clinton Foundation in this denial. I wonder why?

AG Lynch talks a really good game ... but her recent actions are looking a lot more like President Nixon's AG, John Mitchell, as the political days pass. (Mitchell later spent some time in the slammer.)  In this case the appearance of Lynch's impropriety seems overwhelming.

And in a related development, the Department of Justice has just indicated that it won't release Hellery's e-mails that deal with the Clinton Foundation for 27 months ... well after the coming election ... see: Daily Caller Article. Coincidental?

Carl Bernstein, of that Watergate team of Woodward and Bernstein, yesterday said that AG Lynch should recuse herself from these Hellery investigations and defer to her career prosecutor ... see: Breitbart Article.

And former AG Mukasey under George W. Bush agrees that she should recuse herself from all of these Hellery matters ... see: Breitbart Article. Notice what he suggests in these comments about this meeting being requested by Clinton.

This morning AG Lynch indicated that she may not override any recommendations about these matters made to her by the FBI and her deputy prosecutor ... a very small step ... if we can believe her. (It was reported this morning by the New York Times, an apparent arm of the Democrat National Committee, that Lynch would not override such recommendations ... a huge difference.)

But it is clear that this contretemps is still growing more scandalous as the hours pass ... a gigantic deal.

Afterthoughts: 1) If AG Lynch appoints a Special Prosecutor in this matter, you'll know she intends to push things out beyond the election; and 2) I almost innocently titled this blog posting "Lynch Party" but then thought better of it.

Afterward: A reader writes that if Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch are such close friends that they can converse about family, etc. for a half an hour, that this should have been enough to cause her to recuse herself in the first place.