Lynch to follow FBI decision on Clinton email
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch acknowledged Friday that her meeting with Bill Clinton while his wife is under federal investigation “cast a shadow” on the public’s perception of a case playing heavily into the presidential campaign.
“I certainly wouldn’t do it again,” Lynch said of the meeting, which created immediate bipartisan angst and underscored the political consequences of the FBI-led probe into the former secretary of state’s email.
Lynch hastened to add that she would follow the recommendations of career prosecutors and the FBI director on whether to file criminal charges in the case, removing herself from that decision.
The outcome of the investigation is bound to influence the presidential campaign, whether to the benefit of Clinton if she emerges unscathed or Republican rival Donald Trump in the event that she or anyone close to her winds up prosecuted.