{"id":33060,"date":"2018-04-09T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33060"},"modified":"2018-04-09T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:10:48","slug":"rats-deserting-a-sinking-ship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33060","title":{"rendered":"Rats Deserting A Sinking Ship&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Katie Pavlich\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katie_Pavlich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Katie Pavlich<\/a> posted an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2018\/04\/09\/loretta-lynch-n2469163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> today about an interview of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Loretta Lynch\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loretta_Lynch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Loretta Lynch<\/a> by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NBC Universal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcuni.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">NBC&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lester Holt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lester_Holt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Lester Holt<\/a>. The discussion centered around <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James Comey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Comey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">James Comey<\/a>&#8216;s testimony that he was uncomfortable with being asked to call the investigation into <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s<\/a> email server a &#8216;matter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>LESTER HOLT: But, so Comey says you want to call it, &#8220;The Clinton matter.&#8221; He wants to call it, &#8220;The Clinton investigation.&#8221; To the extent, though, that he noted it, that it bothered him did he go to you and question your credibility with regard to the Clinton case?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>LORETTA LYNCH: Well, look I can tell you that, you know, it was a meeting like any other that we that we had had where we talked about the issues. And we had a full and open discussion about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>LESTER HOLT: And he didn&#8217;t raise any concerns about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>LORETTA LYNCH: And concerns were not raised.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note that she is not denying that she asked him to call it &#8220;The Clinton matter.&#8221; She is just saying that he was not overly concerned about calling it that.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some other problems brewing in the investigation of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.895216,-77.025131&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.895216,-77.025131 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">FBI<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8933333333,-77.025&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8933333333,-77.025 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">DOJ<\/a> activities under Obama:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fired Deputy Director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Andrew McCabe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_McCabe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Andrew McCabe<\/a>&#8216;s story about leaking information to the press also conflicts with Comey&#8217;s testimony. McCabe says he had the permission of the Director to do so.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor,\u201d McCabe said after he was fired for lack of candor. \u201cAs deputy director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Comey said under oath he was unaware of any authorized leaks to the media, besides <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2017\/06\/08\/comey-admits-to-leaking-i-had-a-friend-give-my-memos-to-a-reporter-n2338328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his own<\/a> of course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suspect the swamp is getting a little nervous right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Pavlich posted an article at Townhall today about an interview of Loretta Lynch by NBC&#8217;s Lester Holt. The discussion centered around James Comey&#8216;s testimony that he was uncomfortable with being asked to call the investigation into Hillary Clinton&#8217;s email &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10929,10994,9703,3357,420,1457,10095,7603,10310,8436,3035],"class_list":["post-33060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-mccabe","tag-department-of-justice-doj","tag-director-of-the-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-katie-pavlich","tag-lester-holt","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-robert-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33062,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions\/33062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}