Happy Birthday as Katrina floods New Orleans:
Story at ThinkProgress
A Skank Scolds
Story at CNN
Fancy Seeing You Here
Story at AZ Central
A still shot captured from a video of AG Loretta Lynch deplaning at PHX:
No photo of Lynch and Clinton meeting on the tarmac or Clinton boarding Lynch’s plane. Christopher Sign’s report
(O’Reilly is running with other information that he claims he got from Sign (which is heating up the rightwing blogosphere as they all repeat the claims), but until there is confirmation from Signs or other observers to the events, repeating it would be irresponsible.)
Sure wish credible reporters would check into this story (plenty of easy questions that need answering). The explanation that Lynch offered was so stinky that today: Loretta Lynch Says She Won’t Intervene to Save Hillary Clinton as reported by The Atlantic:
If the FBI and federal prosecutors in the Justice Department decide to bring charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Attorney General Loretta Lynch won’t stop them.
Lynch plans to announce later Friday at the Aspen Ideas Festival that she will accept the recommendations of career prosecutors leading the Clinton investigation, according to several reports. The news comes after the disclosure that Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton aboard her government plane at the Phoenix airport–a chat that drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for giving off the appearance of impropriety at a time when the Justice Department is investigating his wife. Lynch has said her meeting with Bill Clinton was unplanned and purely social.
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Your guess as to how and why Lynch met up with Bill Clinton on her private jet.
UPDATE — I find this curious. Christopher Sign is the ABC15 Arizona reporter that broke the Lynch-Clinton “tarmac” meeting story. Filed both on air and in writing (same link as above). What ABC15 went with was the basic story (WJC met with Lynch at PHX on her airplane) that he had verified with Lynch at her news conference at some point during her Phoenix visit.
Subsequent to Sign’s ABC report, he appeared on the O’Reilly Factor. In this appearance he related far more information about what had been visible to an observer in the private airplane section of PHX. However, Sign secured this from a source “that he trusts.” Understandable that ABC15 didn’t want to go with an unverified second-hand report, but it’s interesting that an a news anchor with eleven years at the station would take the story to a rival network. Here’s what he got from his source:
It’s a big scoop. If true and verified. (Or perhaps good enough for Fox (or the NYTimes) if it’s not verified and may not be true.) Seems to me that FBI has some explaining to do if they issued a no photos, etc. order.
