Loretta Lynch denies telling James Comey to call Clinton email probe a 'matter'
by Daniel Chaitin
| May 20, 2019 08:39 PM
| Updated May 20, 2019, 09:54 PM
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch denied to congressional investigators last year that she ever instructed former FBI Director James Comey to minimize the Hillary Clinton email investigation by urging him to call it a "matter" instead of an "investigation."
"I did not. I have never instructed a witness as to what to say specifically. Never have, never will," Lynch told a joint task force of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.
The transcript of the Dec. 19 interview, released Monday evening by House Judiciary ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., clashes with what Comey testified under oath.
He told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 that Lynch "directed" him to call the investigation a "matter" during a September 2015 meeting. Comey brought it up in the context of describing his decision to do a press conference in the summer of 2016 in which he recommended no criminal charges against Clinton but called her handling of classified information "extremely careless."
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