dailycaller | Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general under Barack
Obama, pressured former FBI Director James Comey to downplay the Clinton
email server investigation and only refer to it as a “matter,” Comey
testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
Comey said that when he asked Lynch if she was going to authorize him
to confirm the existence of the Clinton email investigation, her answer
was, “Yes but don’t call it that. Call it a matter.” When Comey asked
why, he said, Lynch wouldn’t give him an explanation. “Just call it a
matter,” she said.
Comey added later that he was concerned about that direction as it
was false. He was further concerned because it aligned with the Clinton
campaign’s spin on the investigation.
Lynch’s order, Comey said, “concerned me because that language
tracked the way the campaign was talking about the FBI’s work and that’s
concerning.”
“I don’t know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the
impression that the attorney general [Lynch] was looking to align the
way we talked about our work with the way the political campaign was
describing the same activity, which was inaccurate,” Comey added.
Comey complied, in his words, because it “wasn’t a hill worth dying
on.” In February 2016, the FBI confirmed in a letter that the agency was
“working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a
private email server.”
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