Lynch: "I fully expect to accept" the DOJ and FBI recommendations on the Clinton email probe https://t.co/8I58ZMGkGD https://t.co/A1DeQqJ6cB
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Yup, that meeting with Bill meant nothing at all and she's still not recusing herself.
Via The Hill:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she will accept whatever recommendations FBI investigators and career prosecutors make about the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“I fully expect to accept their recommendations,” Lynch said Friday during a conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
“I will be accepting their recommendations and their plans for going forward.”
However, Lynch made clear that the decision to follow the advice of her subordinates is not the same as recusing herself from the case, as some lawmakers and legal experts would have liked.“A recusal would mean that I wouldn’t even be briefed,” she said. “While I don’t have a role in those findings or coming up with those findings … I will be briefed on it and I will be accepting their recommendations.”
The case will be reviewed by FBI Director James Comey and other senior officials within the Justice Department, she added.
Lynch made the pledge following an intensely scrutinized private meeting this week with former President Bill Clinton, which many saw as potentially improper given Lynch’s role overseeing the probe into his wife, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.