Attorney General Loretta Lynch apologized– of a sort– for her impromptu meeting with former President Bill Clinton at the Phoenix shy Harbor Airport earlier this week.Ā It appears the meeting Ā was not planned, and that the two simply happened to be in the same place at the same time.Ā ButĀ they stopped and met for a time before going their separate ways.Clinton and Lynch have known each a long time.Ā Clinton nominated her to serve as U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York back in 1999.Ā That familiarity in the face of the on-going investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of her private email accounts for government business raised a number of eyebrows after word of the meeting got out.’
To head off the coming firestorm, Lynch publicly disclosed the meeting and acknowledged that it had “cast a shadow” over the investigation.Ā She was pretty much forced to announce that Mrs. Clinton’s matter “will be resolved by the team that has been working on it from the beginning.”