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Op-Ed: FBI formally announces investigation of Hillary Clinton

Sources say the investigation has expanded to examine potential quid pro quo with donors by the controversial Clinton Family Foundation.
Loretta Lynch was appointed by Pres. Barack Obama as attorney general after he decided to govern largely through the use of executive orders as opposed to working with Congress. However, Lynch is about to be dragged into the national security scandal over Hillary Clinton FBI investigation since her office would have to accept and act on any evidence of wrongdoing uncovered during the investigation.

In the letter dated February 2 and filed in court on Monday, the FBI’s general counsel, James Baker, notes that the FBI “has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server.” While the matter comes as no surprise because it has been reported on extensively, the official confirmation comes on the threshold of a long primary season during which Clinton hopes to become the Democratic Party’s candidate of choice. Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, who most thought would be relegated to a minor role in Mrs. Clinton’s virtual coronation, has become a formidable opponent. In today’s New Hampshire primary most polls have Sanders running well ahead of Clinton.
As a steadfast defender of Mr. Obama’s policies and executive orders, pressure on Lynch to step aside will increase exponentially should the FBI find sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton or one of her top aides. Lynch’s Justice Department will have to decide whether to press ahead and as a presidential appointee who serves at the pleasure of the Democratic president she is seen by Republicans and many independents as a partisan shield for the Obama administration and its former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
For his part, No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn (Texas) took to the floor of the Senate last week to call for a special counsel to be appointed “because of the conflict of interest by asking Attorney General Lynch to investigate and perhaps even prosecute somebody in the Obama administration.”
“I think they probably won’t indict her, because the attorney general is from New York, who I believe is a friend of Hillary Clinton,” Donald Trump, a leading Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” in October.
President Obama himself perhaps gave skeptics and critics the best reason to doubt his attorney general’s ability to reach a fair and impartial conclusion about the FBI investigation. As far back as in October, President Obama during an interview appeared to dismiss concerns about Clinton’s private server.
“I can tell you that this is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered,” Obama said on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
“It might appear that he’s trying to influence the conduct of the investigation,” Cornyn said on the Senate floor this week. “That’s a real problem.” It is unclear how Mr. Obama reached such a casual conclusion in a case that entails volumes of emails including highly classified and top secret documents. Adding to the appearance of conflict of interest, Lynch was appointed to be the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband. She was personally recommended for the position by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and one government official said Clinton himself had a relatively minor role in the selection process.

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