--- title: Hillary Clinton: Loretta Lynch Investigated in Email Probe description: Senate Judiciary Committee leaders are seeking information about Loretta Lynch's alleged interference in Hillary Clinton's email probe canonical: https://time.com/4831849/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-fbi-senate/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-24T20:51:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:13.729Z article:section: Politics og:title: Senate Investigating Loretta Lynch's Alleged Interference in Hillary Clinton Email Probe og:description: The bipartisan group wants to examine if Lynch meddled in the FBI's investigation og:url: https://time.com/4831849/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-fbi-senate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57556aed4095dc4f/69889b3a5f570f4861b21a2e/loretta-lynch-dallas-shooting-remarks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Addresses Shooting Of Police Officers In Dallas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Senate Investigating Loretta Lynch's Alleged Interference in Hillary Clinton Email Probe twitter:description: The bipartisan group wants to examine if Lynch meddled in the FBI's investigation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57556aed4095dc4f/69889b3a5f570f4861b21a2e/loretta-lynch-dallas-shooting-remarks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Senate Investigating Loretta Lynch's Alleged Interference in Hillary Clinton Email Probe > Sponsored content. 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Alex Wong/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jun 24, 2017 8:51 PM UTC Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Friday said they are seeking information about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s [alleged interference in Hillary Clinton’s private email investigation](http://time.com/4816223/donald-trump-loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-actions-illegal/). The bipartisan group is inquiring about Lynch’s communication with Clinton campaign aide Amanda Renteria — whom Lynch reportedly assured that the FBI’s investigation wouldn’t “go too far” — as well as documents and information indicating whether the agency probed that alleged conversation. Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with other lawmakers including 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, sent letters to Lynch earlier this week with the request. A spokesman for Lynch said the former attorney general “will cooperate fully with this inquiry and respond directly to the Senate Judiciary Committee.” “Ms. Lynch is a committed public servant who has dedicated much of her career to the Department of Justice and led the department as attorney general in the fair and impartial administration of justice,” a spokesman said in a statement Friday. The inquiries about Lynch’s communication are part of a larger examination of President Donald Trump’s [dismissal of FBI Director James Comey](http://time.com/4830806/president-trump-james-comey-trust-poll/), who was overseeing the Clinton probe at the time. In a testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, Comey said that Lynch during the Clinton probe told him: “Don’t call it \[an investigation\]. Call it a matter. Just call it a matter.”’ “It gave me a queasy feeling,” Comey [said in the testimony](http://time.com/4811380/comey-testimony-loretta-lynch-email/). ## Transcript [00:00] You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, [00:03] the nothing but the truth, so help me God. I do. Please [00:05] be seated. When I was appointed FBI Director [00:09] in 2013, I understood that I served at the pleasure of [00:13] the President. And although the law required no [00:16] reason at all to fire an FBI Director, the adminstration [00:20] then chose To defame me, and more importantly, the [00:23] FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, [00:28] that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost [00:31] confidence in its leader. Those were lies, plain [00:36] and simple and I am so sorry that the FBI workforce [00:39] had to hear them. And I'm so sorry that the American [00:42] people were told them. I don't think it's for me to say [00:44] whether the conversation I had with the president was [00:46] an effort to obstruct. I took it as a very disturbing [00:49] thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion I'm sure [00:52] the special counsel will work towards to try and [00:54] understand what the intention was there, and whether [00:56] that's an offense. I was honestly concerned that he [00:59] might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so I [01:01] thought it really important to document. You've seen [01:03] the picture of me walking across the Blue Room, and [01:07] what the President whispered in my ear was, " I really [01:09] look forward to working with you ." So after those [01:12] encounters... And that was just a few days before you [01:14] were fired. Yeah, that was on the 20... the sunday [01:16] after the inauguration. The next Friday I have dinner [01:18] and the president begins by wanting to talk about my [01:22] job. And so I'm sitting there thinking, wait a minute, [01:24] three times we've already, you've already asked me to [01:27] stay or talked about me staying. And my common [01:29] sense, again I could be wrong, but my common sense [01:31] told me what's going on here is Hes looking to get [01:34] something in exchange for granting my request to stay [01:38] in the job. My impression was something big is about [01:40] to happen I need to remember every single word that [01:42] is spoken and again I could be wrong I am 56 [01:47] years old I've been I've seen a few things my sense [01:50] was the attorney general knew. He shouldn't be [01:52] leaving, which is why he was lingering. And I don't [01:54] know Mr. Kushner well, but I think he picked up on the [01:57] same thing. And so I knew something was about to [02:00] happen, and I need to know very close attention to. So [02:02] look I've seen a tweet about tapes, Lordy I hope they [02:05] are tapes. President tweeted on Friday after I got fired, [02:09] that I better hope there's not tapes I woke up in the [02:12] middle of the night on Monday night, cuz it didn't dawn [02:14] on me originally, that there might be corroboration for [02:17] our conversation. There might be a tape, and my [02:19] judgement was, I needed to get that out into the public [02:22] square. So I asked a friend of mine to share the [02:25] content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it [02:28] myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to [02:30] because I thought that might prompt the appointment [02:32] of a special council. And so I asked a close friend of [02:35] mine to do it. And then you made a comment earlier [02:37] about the attorney general, previous attorney general, [02:41] asking you about the investigation on the Clinton emails [02:46] saying that you'd been asked not to ask to call it an [02:47] investigation anymore but to call it a matter. And you [02:51] said that confused you. Can you give us additional [02:53] details on that? Well it concerned me because [02:57] we were at the point where we had refused to confirm [03:01] the existence, as we typically do, of an investigation for [03:04] months. And it was getting to a place where that [03:06] looked silly because the campaigns were talking about [03:10] interacting with the FBI in the course of our work. The [03:13] Clinton campaign at the time was using all kinds of [03:15] euphemisms. Security review, matters, things like that [03:20] for what was going on. We were getting to a place [03:22] where the attorney general and I were both gonna [03:23] have to testify and talk publicly about it. And I wanna [03:26] know what she gonna authorize us to confirm we had [03:28] an investigation. And she said yes, but don't call it that. [03:32] Call it a matter. And I said why would I do that? And [03:35] she said, just call it a matter. And so that concerned [03:40] me, because that language tracked the way the [03:42] campaign was talking about the FBI's work, and [03:47] that's concerning. All I can do is hope. The [03:51] President, surely, knows whether he taped me. And if [03:53] he did, my feelings aren't hurt, release all the tapes. [03:57] I'm good with it. 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