One of the enduring mysteries of the 2016 presidential race is what exactly transpired when Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton on an airplane in Phoenix.
Considering that the FBI investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton’s secret email server was ongoing, Lynch’s claims that the rendezvous was coincidental and innocent don’t pass the smell test.
Even more malodorous is that the meeting came shortly before the FBI cleared Mrs. Clinton of any criminality in the matter. The FBI had claimed that there was no documentation of the meeting nor was note taker James Comey compelled to jot down a transcript of any sessions with Lynch.
Now it appears that the FBI may not have been honest and 30 pages of documents on the Bubba-Lynch meeting have suddenly appeared after conservative watchdog Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit.
Watchdog: FBI has located 30 pages of documents related to Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting https://t.co/tqWAZPrsma http://pic.twitter.com/PNfytUo0ni
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 14, 2017
Via The Washington Examiner Watchdog: FBI has located 30 pages of documents related to Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting”:
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, announced that the FBI has found 30 pages of documents concerning the 2016 tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
“The FBI is out of control. It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit,” Judicial Watch Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately.”
The watchdog group expects to receive the newly revealed documents by the end of November.
Lynch met Bill Clinton on a private plane at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 26, 2016, while the FBI investigation concerning Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was still underway, raising concerns about Lynch’s independence.
In July 2016, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding “all records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative,” concerning Clinton’s use of a personal email server and Bill Clinton’s meeting with Lynch.
The Justice Department failed to comply and led to the FOIA lawsuit that Judicial Watch says paved the way to it expecting a new tranche of documents.
The FBI did not originally uncover documents concerning the tarmac meeting, according to Fox News. However, the Justice Department did find email correspondence related to the meeting in a related case in 2017.
In response, the FBI sent a letter dated August 10, 2017 that said, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your [FOIA] request has been reopened…” and added they are investigating any “responsive material.”
“We presume they are new documents. We won’t know what’s in them until we see them, unfortunately,” Fitton told Fox News in an email Friday. “The fact they just ‘found’ them is yet another scandal.”
The contents of the documents are unknown and will not be provided to Judicial Watch until later this year.
How much do you want to bet that 29 of the 30 pages will be heavily redacted?
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