Stumbling Loretta

                                     

   By Florida Bill                                    

                                Loretta Lynch is the country's top lawyer, heading up a huge staff of attorneys and directing the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, yet she dribbles her legal ball from one gaffe and foolish comment to another. Her utter incompetence in the position of Attorney General appears obvious, yet she continues to muddle about her work with the backing of her friend and fellow alumnus from Harvard Law school, President Obama.
                                Fortunately, in a few short days, she will be out of a job as the lame duck administration leaves office.  But not so fast-- she has some explaining to do to the Judicial Watch Organization, which has commenced legal action against her,  and to fellow attorneys who have witnessed her unethical behavior in connection with the Hillary Clinton investigation. She may also have some explaining to do to the Inspector General who of necessity will be involving her in its investigation of the FBI and its director.  
                                She has given speeches before the American Bar Association praising the legal profession for its ethical requirements. Does her unethical conduct as head of the Department of Justice require ABA sanctions?  Also, the American Center for Law, as well as Florida Congressman Dennis Ross, have been calling for Lynch to resign for months, noting that she has "betrayed the trust of Americans" and has violated numerous federal regulations and standards of justice. 
                                  Judicial Watch is an American conservative  non-partisan watchdog group with a mission of exposing misconduct by government officials.  It has zeroed in on Lynch and has filed demands for information from her in accord with the Freedom of Information Act. 
                                 With the new administration of President Trump, the fiery senator from Alabama,  Jeff Sessions, will become Attorney General, and it is anticipated that his office (he has recused himself) will be following through with an investigation of alleged Hillary Clinton misdeeds; and that investigation will call into question the conduct of Lynch and her manipulation of the FBI under her control. 
                                                   Lynch's sneaky tarmac meeting with former President Clinton, at a time when Clinton's wife was under investigation for criminal mishandling of classified information, outraged even the nonlegal community. The meeting was considered an "egregious violation" of legal ethics and conduct as Lynch was in charge of the investigation, supervising the FBI. 
                                  Judicial Watch is seeking to determine the exact substance of the meeting in face of allegations and beliefs that former President Clinton was pushing Lynch, a woman he knew and who he had appointed to a high position while he was president, to exonerate his wife of any criminal wrong doing.  In other words, was the "fix" put in?   
                                   Several days following the private meeting with the former President, Lynch declined to resign but said that she would abide by a recommendation of the FBI as to Clinton's criminal culpability.  Three days later it was announced by FBI Director James Comey that there would be no prosecution of Mrs. Clinton. The question  of a prosecution is never within the discretion of the FBI, belonging solely to the Attorney General as head of the Department of Justice.
                                 Lynch's earlier demonstrations of her ineptitude came in comments she made while reacting to vicious murders carried out by Muslim fanatics in Orlando, Florida, and San Bernardino, California.  Following the deadly gunshot slayings in an Orlando nightclub by a self- described "Soldier of ISIS," Lynch took to the podium and babbled about the need to be kind and never turn a blind eye to the LGBT community.  The most effective response to terror, she asserted with emotion, is "compassion, unity and love."                                 
                                  After the San Bernardino killings in which a radicalized Islamic couple murdered coworkers at a company party, Lynch reacted in disconnected and maudlin fashion.  Referencing that terrorism is an evil,  Lynch declared that her  "greatest fear" was "anti-Muslim rhetoric which edges toward violence."  For that, she said, Justice department lawyers are prepared to take "aggressive action" and to prosecute where ever this caustic and hostile bombast is found. 
                                   Her inane comments in regard to Muslim terrorism (words she cannot seem to pronounce) are not confined to murders.  The attorney general also is threatening to prosecute anyone who interferes with the bathroom rights of a transgendered person as a violation of the the 1964 Civil Rights law. 
                                   While President Obama was no doubt pleased at her concern for Muslims and the transgendered,  it is numbing that the Attorney General was ignoring first amendment rights of free speech guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.  But then, it may just depend on whose ox is being gored.  When Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of  the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims),  told his followers to "stalk and kill" policemen who are mistreating Blacks, there was never a peep from General Lynch about rhetoric "edging toward violence" against policemen.                      

                                                          Lynch's performance as Attorney General of the United States has to set a record for empty-headed commentary and unethical behavior.   Of course, she will be out as AG soon, but I perceive that Lynch is not yet "out of the woods." Stay tuned. 

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