Comey suspects Loretta Lynch was working with Clintons
Ousted FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that he suspected former Attorney General Loretta Lynch was in cahoots with the Hillary Clinton campaign last summer.
Lynch, he said, told him not to refer to the probe into Clinton’s private email server as an “investigation.”
“She said just call it a matter. … That concerned me because that language tracked how the campaign was talking about the FBI’s work,” he said.
Former President Bill Clinton’s surprise meeting with Lynch at an Arizona airport also prompted him to go public with results of the FBI probe into the email server.
“That was the thing that capped it for me, that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department,” Comey said.
Comey announced last July that criminal charges were not warranted, angering Republicans.