Meltdown at Justice: Corrupt Token Black Attorney General Lynch Abdicated Her Duty in the Clinton Probes

[Bradley K. Sperman]

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Fewer than three of 10 Americans trust
government to do the right thing always or most of the time,
Gallup reports, and the years since 2007 are “the longest period
of low trust in government in more than 50 years.” The details
emerging about the multiple investigations into Hillary Clinton
explain a lot about this ebbing public confidence in
institutions such as the Justice Department and Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
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Start with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. A cavalcade of former
Justice heavyweights are now assailing FBI director James Comey
for reopening the Clinton email file, and Justice sources are
leaking that the director went rogue despite Ms. Lynch’s counsel
not to alert Congress so close to an election.

But Mr. Comey works for the Attorney General. If she thinks Mr.
Comey was breaking Justice rules by sending Friday’s letter to
Congress, then she had every right to order him not do so. If
Mr. Comey sent the letter anyway, and he didn’t resign, Ms.
Lynch could then ask President Obama to fire him.

Our guess is that she didn’t order Mr. Comey not to send the
letter precisely because she feared Mr. Comey would resign—and
cause an even bigger political storm. But the worst approach is
to let a subordinate do something you believe is wrong and then
whisper afterwards that you told him not to. The phrase for that
is political cowardice.

Ms. Lynch’s abdication began when she and her prosecutors
declined to empanel a grand jury. It continued in June after her
supposedly coincidental rendezvous with Bill Clinton on a
Phoenix airport tarmac. She could have told Hillary Clinton’s
husband that the appointment was inappropriate, or refused to
let him board her plane. She says the conversation was “social,”
but she allowed the ex-President to create the appearance of a
conflict of interest.

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