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| US AG Lynch steps back from Clinton email case over conflict of interest | |
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| US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has stepped away from deciding whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be charged in the classified email investigation, following outrage over the AG's private Monday meeting with Bill Clinton, the justice department announced Friday morning. | US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has stepped away from deciding whether Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be charged in the classified email investigation, following outrage over the AG's private Monday meeting with Bill Clinton, the justice department announced Friday morning. |
| Lynch is expected to comment on the move during her conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival in just a few minutes, according to an anonymous DOJ official. | |
| The news comes in the wake of accusations that the Barack Obama appointee has a conflict of interest in the case, after she met with the former president on her government plane while on the tarmac of Phoenix, Arizona's Sky Harbor Airport on Monday. | The news comes in the wake of accusations that the Barack Obama appointee has a conflict of interest in the case, after she met with the former president on her government plane while on the tarmac of Phoenix, Arizona's Sky Harbor Airport on Monday. |
| She reportedly will accept recommendations from career prosecutors and the FBI instead of being part of the decision-making process herself. | She reportedly will accept recommendations from career prosecutors and the FBI instead of being part of the decision-making process herself. |
| Normally, the AG and other DOJ officials would have the final say in bringing charges in an investigation, but Monday’s 30 minute meeting is thought to have led to the change in protocol. | Normally, the AG and other DOJ officials would have the final say in bringing charges in an investigation, but Monday’s 30 minute meeting is thought to have led to the change in protocol. |
| Although Lynch stressed the two did not discuss official business, she was accused of impropriety and and urged to recuse herself. | Although Lynch stressed the two did not discuss official business, she was accused of impropriety and and urged to recuse herself. |
| READ MORE: Bill Clinton’s secret meeting with Loretta Lynch sparks suspicions over Hillary email scandal | READ MORE: Bill Clinton’s secret meeting with Loretta Lynch sparks suspicions over Hillary email scandal |
| “When I first heard that... I actually thought they were joking,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday on the Fox News Channel program Hannity. “I’m just flabbergasted by it. I think it’s amazing. I’ve never seen anything like that before.” | “When I first heard that... I actually thought they were joking,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday on the Fox News Channel program Hannity. “I’m just flabbergasted by it. I think it’s amazing. I’ve never seen anything like that before.” |
| Clinton's primary opponent Bernie Sanders said on CBS News in May that voters should take a "hard look" at a State Department audit on the matter, but it was not enough to sway them away from the former Secretary of State, who is leading in the delegate count. | Clinton's primary opponent Bernie Sanders said on CBS News in May that voters should take a "hard look" at a State Department audit on the matter, but it was not enough to sway them away from the former Secretary of State, who is leading in the delegate count. |
| Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein told the Observer two weeks ago, “This is sort of typical Hillary Clinton; to do things that are not legal, to say that they are, and then try to cover them up. Hillary Clinton severely chastised other whistleblowers for using Internet channels that were not secure and yet she herself was doing that with private, high level state department information.” | Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein told the Observer two weeks ago, “This is sort of typical Hillary Clinton; to do things that are not legal, to say that they are, and then try to cover them up. Hillary Clinton severely chastised other whistleblowers for using Internet channels that were not secure and yet she herself was doing that with private, high level state department information.” |
| Lynch's decision is a departure from previous investigations. When President Obama's former CIA director David Petraeus was investigated for leaking classified documents to his biographer and girlfriend, the FBI recommended felony charges, but Lynch's predecessor, Obama appointee Eric Holder, changed it to a misdemeanor. | Lynch's decision is a departure from previous investigations. When President Obama's former CIA director David Petraeus was investigated for leaking classified documents to his biographer and girlfriend, the FBI recommended felony charges, but Lynch's predecessor, Obama appointee Eric Holder, changed it to a misdemeanor. |
| The investigation has been examining Clinton’s use of a private email server in her home while she was the country's top diplomat to determine whether she or anyone on her team broke the law by setting it up or sending classified information through it. | The investigation has been examining Clinton’s use of a private email server in her home while she was the country's top diplomat to determine whether she or anyone on her team broke the law by setting it up or sending classified information through it. |
| While it has already been established that some classified information was sent on the server, the question lies in whether Clinton’s handling of said information amounts to criminal mishandling of classified information. | While it has already been established that some classified information was sent on the server, the question lies in whether Clinton’s handling of said information amounts to criminal mishandling of classified information. |
| Lynch’s decision to accept the recommendation of the prosecutors is standard procedure for an attorney general, but it eliminates the possibility that Lynch would overrule investigators, something that has been suggested. | Lynch’s decision to accept the recommendation of the prosecutors is standard procedure for an attorney general, but it eliminates the possibility that Lynch would overrule investigators, something that has been suggested. |