Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch meet privately

[NWCorona]

Source: CNN

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met privately on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona, after the two realized they were on the same tarmac, an aide to Clinton said.

The meeting took place at an Arizona airport ahead of the public release Tuesday morning of the House Benghazi committee's report on the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.

Speaking at a news conference in Phoenix on Tuesday, Lynch confirmed the meeting and denied the two spoke about any matter pending before the Justice Department or the Benghazi probe. She also said the former president "did not raise anything" about an ongoing case or anything of that nature.

"I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving and spoke to myself and my husband on the plane," Lynch said according to CNN affiliate KNXV/ABC15. "Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren, it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf he played in Phoenix."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/bill-clinton-loretta-lynch/index.html

[99th_Monkey]

1. La-La-La-La ... Nothing to see here.

[Kingofalldems]

2. What are you trying to say?

[BlueCaliDem]

30. OMG! OMG!

And President Obama is going to campaign with Hillary Clinton next week too!

[msongs]

3. when you have friends in politics such meetings are probably rather common nt

[NWCorona]

4. It probably was a Grey Poupon moment

[reddread]

5. with a white noise machine

[NWCorona]

6. Yes. And that!

[MADem]

7. Washington DC is a SMALL TOWN.

The Clintons do have a home there. Loretta and Bill's wife both worked for the same boss.

I would be shocked if these two couples didn't travel in the same social circles and know each other, perhaps quite well.

Love the way people are desperately, FITZmasly, trying to make something out of it--like Bill and Loretta would "conspire" while Loretta's husband sits off to the side playing Candy Crush, or something!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Candy crush?... sounds suspicious to me.

[MADem]

10. LOL--apparently it is the heir to 'Angry Birds' as the mobile time waster of choice! nt

[sheshe2]

12. Lol~ CT!

Escher.



What is up is down. What is down is up.

[obamanut2012]

15. DWS PLAYS CANDY CRUSH TOO!!!!11111

:TINFOIL:

[MADem]

35. Hahaha! nt

[The Second Stone]

9. Is that even legal? Shouldn't Trey Gowdy

investigate and get to the bottom of this. It might go full Benghazi!!

[MADem]

11. Quick--someone appropriate seven million bucks!

Then call Loretta in and grill her to no good effect for 12 hours!

[videohead5]

13. Rethugs Are,

Going ape $h!t over this.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. So are some du'ers.

[BlueCaliDem]

26. Yep. The usual suspects. eom

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. my candidate didn't win, so i'm going to tear down the person who did win. sad really

[BlueCaliDem]

31. Yep. The burn the village to save it scenario.

You have to admit, though...they're being very clever since the new ToS went into effect.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. they can be as clever as they want but SPOILER ALERT: hillary won. Hillary will win in Nov.

no matter what stupid new controversy they drum up/

[Wounded Bear]

25. Saw a reference to this on another board...

I guess it was this, anyway. Was just typical RW vague innuendo, which softly screams "AFFAIR! BILL'S AT IT AGAIN!!!!"

Bunch of grade school crap.

[MADem]

37. Seeing as Loretta's husband was RIGHT THERE, ya gotta give Bill props for sheer

boldness-LOL!

Of course, that small but important fact ruins the narrative!!

[msongs]

14. maybe it was a Rick and Ilsa moment. was Louie there too?

[OnDoutside]

16. Scarborough and Brzezinski venting their Anti-Clinton spleen as usual on Morning Joe, and no one

took them up on it.

[Scuba]

17. Seems like poor judgment on Lynch's part to meet ...

... with the spouse of someone the DOJ is investigating.

[laserhaas]

18. Must be recused from decision making

And...if she didnt instantaneously disclose

Obama needs to consider removing her

Taint

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. Lol

[philosslayer]

21. Absurd

[Press Virginia]

34. Remember when there was something about Clarence Thomas and his wife

and her relation to some org that had a case before the court?

The calls for his recusal were based on the possibility of influence by his wife. It didn't matter that everyone knew how he was going to vote it's the idea that he wouldn't be impartial that mattered.

It happened with Kagan and the Obamacare case too

No one has questioned her ethics, that I'm aware of, but the appearance this projects doesn't look good

[BlueCaliDem]

27. ...

[MADem]

38. It wasn't a "meeting." No one had it on their calendar.

It was an "Oh wow, Loretta and her husband are waiting to take off, too? Let me go on over and say 'Hi!'"

Pure chance and happenstance--and last I checked, HE wasn't under investigation.

How much colluding they did with Loretta's husband RIGHT THERE is a bit of a leap, too.

[Loki]

22. And, since you posted this,

what are you insinuating? Are they supposed to speak together in public, or would it be safer for them to speak in a private area where they can be protected? Really CNN, the home of a once great news network that now hires abusers of women. The Criminally Nefarious Network. Crap in, crap out.

[NWCorona]

23. I'm saying it looks bad and I haven't heard anyone with a legal background say otherwise.

[Loki]

40. Oh, I see.

Loretta is giving the Clinton's a heads up on the FBI investigation. We always attribute the worst possible outcomes, don't we? I find her to be a very honorable government representative. Apparently some want to believe differently. Ready to believe the worst.

[NWCorona]

41. Why assume?

[riderinthestorm]

24. I don't believe in coincidences nt

[deathrind]

29. True

As a Det. friend likes to say.

The first coincidence is suspicious...

The second coincidence is evidence...

[NWCorona]

33. There's no info to think it could be a coincidence.

Why was Bill in Arizona? Why was Loretta there as well? It seems odd that their paths would intersect at an airport in the boondocks.

[Zen Democrat]

36. Are you kidding? Bill knows better than that. Lynch is over the entire FBI investigation of Hillary

She should never have had a private conversation with Bill. It's called propriety and ethics.

[NWCorona]

39. It does seem odd.

And I don't think they just talked about grandchildren and golf.

[renate]

43. I do wish Bill would just sit in a corner till the election

He may be super smart and super charming and everything, but he has very bad judgement. As a lawyer he should have known better than to ask to meet with her (and she should have known better than to agree, to be fair) and now the Republicans have something new to light their hair on fire about. And now, once again, Hillary has to defend herself against something he did.

[kacekwl]

44. The Clintons more than anyone

should know how this looks and is a STUPID move wherever the reason.

[tavernier]

45. He said hello in the airplane

and they exchanged chit chat about the grandkids. He just had a new one, so I'm sure she asked. All of this is per her.

What am I missing here?

[renate]

46. appearances

It was a private meeting, so there's no way to contradict Republican claims that they talked about the FBI investigation. I'm sure they didn't... well, it's Bill, so who knows, but I hope and assume that they didn't. But it certainly doesn't look good.

Plus, even if it was only a friendly conversation about grandkids, that's not great. Talking about personal things with someone makes most people feel more warmly towards that person.

I think most lawyers are saying that was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea for him to create even the appearance of favoritism or any kind of personal relationship. And I think they're right.

Bill just has no restraining bolt.