"The FBI has yet to interview Clinton, who has said she hopes the investigation is completed soon."

[mia]

Clinton will be our candidate. The sooner this is over, the better it is for Clinton and the Democratic Party.

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.

Yet while a Justice Department official told The New York Times that Lynch was moving toward this decision, the controversy over the meeting essentially forced her hand, and the timing of her comments is clearly aimed at reassuring the public that politics won’t interfere with the department’s handling of the Clinton inquiry.

The attorney general typically would have the final say over whether prosecutors seek an indictment in such a high-profile case involving a former senior Cabinet official. The Times noted that Lynch’s predecessor, Eric Holder, chose to overrule prosecutors who wanted to bring felony charges against former CIA Director David Petraeus, reducing the charge to a misdemeanor in a case involving the mishandling of classified material.

Lynch is not formally recusing herself and won’t agree to demands from some Republicans, including Senator John Cornyn of Texas, that she appoint a special counsel in the Clinton case. The FBI has yet to interview Clinton, who has said she hopes the investigation is completed soon.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/loretta-lynch-says-she-wouldnt-save-hillary-clinton/489725/

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Hillary Clinton is our candidate.

There. I fixed it for you.

[NCTraveler]

2. Republicans are unhinged. This is a thing of beauty to watch. nt.

[scscholar]

3. This inquiry isn't even important enough for them to take a few hours...

to talk to the person at the top! That shows this is nothing. They've proven this is nothing by not even trying to talk to her.

[NWCorona]

4. The word on the other side of the street is that Hillary and the FBI will sit down on Saturday.

The sooner this is over the better.

[B2G]

5. Rumour mill is saying interview is tomorrow.

We shall see.