The Senate Judiciary Committee has opened a probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s efforts to shape the FBI’s investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the committee’s chairman announced Friday.

In a letter to Ms. Lynch, the committee asks her to detail the depths of her involvement in the FBI’s investigation, including whether she ever assured Clinton confidantes that the probe wouldn’t “push too deeply into the matter.”

Fired FBI Director James B. Comey has said publicly that Ms. Lynch tried to shape the way he talked about the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s emails, and he also hinted at other behavior “which I cannot talk about yet” that made him worried about Ms. Lynch’s ability to make impartial decisions.

Mr. Comey said that was one reason why he took it upon himself to buck Justice Department tradition and reveal his findings about Mrs. Clinton last year.

The probe into Ms. Lynch comes as the Judiciary Committee is already looking at President Trump’s firing of Mr. Comey.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the committee, said the investigation is bipartisan. The letter to Ms. Lynch is signed by ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and also by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, the chairman and ranking member of the key investigative subcommittee.

Letters also went to Clinton campaign staffer Amanda Renteria and Leonard Benardo and Gail Scovell at the Open Society Foundations. Mr. Benardo was reportedly on an email chain from the then-head of the Democratic National Committee suggesting Ms. Lynch had given assurances to Ms. Renteria, the campaign staffer, that the Clinton probe wouldn’t “go too far.”

At a Senate hearing earlier this month, Mr. Comey told lawmakers that Ms. Lynch had attempted to change the way the FBI described its probe of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server. The change appeared to dovetail with how Mrs. Clinton’s supporters were characterizing the probe.

“At one point, [Ms. Lynch] directed me not to call it an ‘investigation’ but instead to call it a ‘matter,’ which confused me and concerned me,” Mr. Comey said during his June 8 testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we are to close this case credibly.”

Acknowledging that he didn’t know whether it was intentional, Mr. Comey said Ms. Lynch’s request “gave the impression the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our investigation with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity.”

Mr. Comey said the language suggested by Ms. Lynch was troublesome because it closely mirrored what the Clinton campaign was using. Despite his discomfort, Mr. Comey said, he agreed to Ms. Lynch’s language.

• Andrea Noble contributed to this story.


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The Trump train keeps rolling.

Good. Now we need the DOJ to reopen the investigation into Clinton since there may have been obstruction in the first one.

Ohhhh snap!

A parade of criminals from the Obama years-- one of them should be heading to the hoosegow by now. And I have a feeling that it will be like dominos.

I'm confused. Is a "probe" a "matter" or an "investigation?"

Good.

I hope they find a recording of Bill's chat in the plane. Either way, this is a step toward getting both of them hauled in front of an adversarial hearing to talk about that episode.

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Originally posted by Sportshooter:
I'm confused. Is a "probe" a "matter" or an "investigation?"

To the media it's only an "investigation" when it's against Republicans, since that sounds more serious.

Good, and when they clean up the Clinton, Lynch and Comey mess they can go for that ass Eric Holder. He should have already served 2-3 years of the sentence he should have gotten when he was head of the DOJ.

Jim

I wish Trump & Co would make it a bigger point that Clinton was never "exonerated".
In fact, Comey clearly stated that she was extremely careless with highly sensitive national security information....which is a crime.
But he "chose not to prosecute at this time."

Time to prosecute!

She's going to clam up tight.

"I plead the 5th" will be the only thing out of her evil mouth.

Can you even imagine what the actual, physical arrest of HRC would look like? It would almost certainly be caught on video. If only as future legal proof of how it was actually handled. I am seeing her smug 'you are making a career decision' smile on her face as she turns to finally acquiesce to being cuffed.

Then again, maybe she would go apeshit, push something over and try to make a run for it. It might wind up looking like an episode of 'COPS'. That is the fashion these days for the typical GDC.

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Can you even imagine what the actual, physical arrest of HRC would look like?

It's probably just a delicious fantasy... but I'd sure like it to see it happen.

When I read the news that Loow-reta was being investigated, it put the biggest smile on my face, and a YESSSS out of my mouth. Without Trump winning, this would never be happening. Happy hour will definitely be happy today!!

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Can you even imagine what the actual, physical arrest of HRC would look like? It would almost certainly be caught on video. If only as future legal proof of how it was actually handled. I am seeing her smug 'you are making a career decision' smile on her face as she turns to finally acquiesce to being cuffed.

Then again, maybe she would go apeshit, push something over and try to make a run for it. It might wind up looking like an episode of 'COPS'. That is the fashion these days for the typical GDC.

You can be certain her attorneys would arrange for her to come in and surrender out of camera range, book, fingerprint, etc.

CNN reports;

"TRUMP HEADS LYNCH MOB"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Veeeeeery clever, as always, sir! LMAO!!!

Brother SDY has posted the letter from the Senate in the thread Trump Presidency, page 321.

I truly hope that her probe is excruciatingly painful and debilitating