Nobody bumps
into each other on the tarmac of an airport - not even jet-setters. So
when Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton met on the Attorney
General’s plane at the Phoenix, Arizona airport, something was funny.
Ex parte
communications are out of bounds and both the Attorney General and Bill Clinton
(himself a former prosecutor) know this well. Assuming that the investigations
are continuing, this meeting was improper. However, remove that assumption and
the meeting may not have been improper at all. That is; if one or both of the investigations
are completed and an indictment is pending, this meeting may not be out of
bounds.
So (according
to the Attorney General) they primarily
chatted about the Clinton’s grandchildren, their travels, and Bill’s golf game.
Oh well, call me a conspiracy theorist but here is how I read the tea leaves:
The Attorney General is about to lay the law down on Bill’s wife and she gave
Bill the courtesy of a pre-indictment meeting to discuss the manner in which
this unpleasant event will unfold. A surrender deal of sorts.
Look for
President Obama to be campaigning with the newly anointed presumptive
Democratic presidential candidate next week – Joe Biden.
UPDATE at
10:30 AM EDT: The Attorney General has semi-reused herself from the Clinton
investigations. She has released a public statement that she will accept the
recommendations of the FBI agents investigating the Clinton matters. I would
say that this meeting with Bill Clinton worked out very well for the Attorney
General. She removed herself from the inevitable firestorm between President
Obama and the Clintons that will begin as soon as the indictment comes down.
Well done Mrs. Attorney General. All of this also means that the timing may be
pushed back a bit further - but I still believe that it is inevitable. Joe
Biden is warming up in the bullpen.
And now on to
the Turkey terrorist attack…
While I am in
this conspiracy uncovering thought process, I have another question. Was it me
or did it seem odd that the terrorist attack in Turkey (the nth in a series of n+x in Turkey) was
given wall-to-wall coverage by all the major cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC,
FNC) some twelve hours after it happened? The previous n-1 such attacks in
Turkey did not get this much coverage.
There have
been multiple terrorist attacks in Turkey in the past six months alone. Yet,
this one, all of a sudden, gets all the attention of a Western terrorist attack
(like Paris, Brussels, or Orlando). It deserves this attention as all terrorist
attacks do (whether a Western attack or not). But, in the past, non-Western
attacks have not received this attention. Could it be that someone of influence
(maybe the White House) told the networks that they were being biased in not
covering a horrific terrorist attack against an Islamic country?
Turkey, a NATO
member, with the attention of an empathetic Western world weary with terrorism
could invoke article 5 of the treaty. They already invoked the 4th article that requires that all NATO
members meet to discuss the attack on their sovereign territory. Will that
meeting result in the invocation of article 5? That is; an attack on one NATO
member is considered an attack on all NATO countries. What a better way to
declare war on ISIS but through a Muslim country?
