NEW YORK – A Donald Trump Tweet
late Saturday afternoon adds to the growing concern “the fix is in” on the
FBI’s criminal probe of Hillary Clinton.
CNN is reporting its sources expect an
announcement to be made within two weeks that no charges will be filed against
the Democratic presidential candidate for president.
At 4:06 p.m Eastern time Saturday, within hours of Hillary
Clinton’s interview with the FBI, Teddy Davis, a senior producer at CNN, began
tweeting that the “expectation” is that no criminal charges will be brought
against Clinton, provided no wrongdoing emerged in today’s interview.
On Saturday, various news sources reported earlier in the day that Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s chief of staff at the State Department, accompanied Mrs. Clinton to the FBI interview.
Mills’ attendance at
Clinton’s FBI interview adds to the controversy calling for Attorney General
Loretta Lynch to recuse herself in the FBI investigation of the Hillary Clinton
email controversy that developed Friday when news sources revealed former President
Bill Clinton delayed his takeoff in order to maneuver a 20-25 private meeting
with Lynch in her airplane on the tarmac at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Loretta Lynch and Cheryl Mills law firm tied to Hillary Clinton
On March 28, WND
reported Lynch was a
litigation partner for eight years at a major Washington law firm that served
the Clintons.
Lynch was with the Washington-headquartered international law firm
Hogan & Hartson LLP from March 2002 through April 2010.
Cheryl Mills also worked at
Hogan & Hartson, for two years, starting in 1990, before she
joined then President-elect Bill Clinton’s transition team, on her way to
securing a position as White House deputy counsel in the Clinton administration.
On May 27, in her
Judicial Watch deposition on pages 12-13 of the transcript, Mills explained she
had worked for Hogan & Hartson prior to working at the White House.
The exact question-and-answer sequence was recorded as follows:
Question: OK, and when did you graduate from Virginia, from UVA [University of Virginia].
Answer: Do I have to say that? I am so old. I graduated from UVA
in 1987, and I graduated from Stanford Law School in 1990.
Question: OK. Great. Thank you. And right out of law school you
went to a law firm. Is that right?
Answer: I did. I went to work at Hogan & Hartson, which is a
law firm here in Washington, D.C., though their name has
changed.
Question: OK. And what did you do for them, practice as a
litigator, or which –
Answer: I represented school districts that were still seeking to
implement the promises of Brown vs. The Board of Education.
Question: OK. Is that litigation?
Answer: So it was a conglomerate of activities, but also included
litigation.
Question: OK. And then after that?
Answer: After that I went to work in the White House. In the
in-between period I went and worked on the Clinton campaign and on the
transition. And then went to work in the White House, and was at the – in the
White House for about seven years.
Question: OK. And when did you start working in the White House?
Not specific date, but year-wise.
Answer: Oh, I know. So it would have been in 1993.
According to documents Hillary Clinton’s first presidential
campaign made public in 2008, Hogan & Hartson’s New York-based partner
Howard Topaz was the tax lawyer who filed income tax returns for Bill and
Hillary Clinton beginning in 2004.
In addition, Hogan & Hartson in Virginia filed a patent
trademark request on May 19, 2004, for Denver-based MX
Logic Inc., the computer software firm that developed the email encryption
system used to manage Clinton’s private email server
beginning in July 2013. A tech expert has observed that employees of MX Logic
could have had access to all the emails that went through her account.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated Lynch for the first of
her two terms as U.S. attorney for the
Eastern District of New York, a position she held until she joined Hogan &
Hartson in March 2002.
While there is no
evidence that Lynch played a direct role either in the tax work done by the
firm for the Clintons or in linking Hillary’s private email server to MX Logic,
the ethics of the
legal profession hold all partners jointly liable for the actions of other
partners in a business.
“If Hogan and Hartson previously represented the Clintons on tax
matters, it is incumbent upon U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to [disclose]
what, if any, role she had in such tax matters,” said Tom Fitton, president of
Washington-based Judicial Watch.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/trump-tweet-on-hillary-probe-the-fix-is-in/#7bGPAsK31gjOYCMG.99
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