The Top 5 Loretta Lynch Outrages

Weathering a firestorm of criticism for her meeting with former President Bill Clinton Thursday, deemed inappropriate by even the friendliest of figures, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was forced to back into a corner Friday. Lynch announced that should the FBI recommend an indictment against Hillary Clinton, she pledged to allow it to move forward, and to recuse herself from the indictment decision-making process.

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But the meeting with Clinton, and the resulting backtrack, has only been the latest in a line of questionable statements and politically charged actions from the attorney general. Here are five of the best:

1) Praising Rioters, Condemning the Police in Baltimore Freddie Gray Incident
Lynch, just a few days into her new role as attorney general, launched a federal investigation into the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.
In her remarks Lynch made clear her inclinations the police involved were guilty.

“This investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that Baltimore Police Department officers use excessive force, including deadly force, conduct unlawful searches, seizures and arrests, and engage in discriminatory policing,” Lynch said during the May 8, 2015 press conference.

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Two of the officers involved have since been acquitted by juries of the people and none involved have been convicted of any criminal wrongdoing.

But Lynch also took the opportunity to commend the people of Baltimore for burning much of their city to the ground.

“Over the past few days and weeks, we have watched as Baltimore struggled with issues that face cities across the country today,” Lynch said, “We have seen a peaceful protest movement coalesce to express the concern of a beleaguered community.”

That “peaceful protest movement” cost the city of Baltimore an estimated $20 million in damages wrought by the looting, arson, burglary, and general destructive actions of the rioters.

2) Lynch Bypasses Death Penalty for Benghazi Architect
Lynch made the decision to not pursue the death penalty against the Libyan militant charged with orchestrating the 2012 Benghazi attacks, which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Justice Department spokeswoman Emily Pierce said that “after reviewing the case information and consulting with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the attorney general has determined that the Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khatallah.”

“The department is committed to ensuring that the defendant is held accountable for his alleged role in the terrorist attack on the U.S. Special Mission and annex in Benghazi that killed four Americans and seriously injured two others, and if convicted, he faces a sentence of up to life in prison.”

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3) Lynch Pledges to Prosecute Anti-Muslim Speech, Calls San Bernardino ‘Wonderful Opportunity’
Following the San Bernardino Jihadist massacre that killed 14 Americans and wounded 22, Lynch said the real enemy was not Islamic terrorism but instead hateful rhetoric from American conservatives.

Describing the San Bernardino shooting as a “wonderful opportunity” for change at a Muslim advocate’s 10th anniversary dinner, Lynch expressed her concern for the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric.” She went on to say, “that fear is my greatest fear.”

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Lynch stressed the importance of defending Muslims, referencing the Paris attacks and the rise of violence against them.

When we talk about the First Amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American. They are not who we are, they are not what we do, and they will be prosecuted.”

So the greatest fear of the attorney general is not the escalating American death toll at the hands of radicalized Muslims, but the protection of Muslims from uncomfortable rhetoric about the dangers of radical Islam.

4) Censoring Orlando Perpetrator Mateen’s 911 Call Transcript
Under Lynch’s direction, the FBI released a censored transcript of the 28 minutes of 911 calls that Omar Mateen placed at a gay nightclub in Orlando during his attack.

Lynch instructed FBI officials to omit the shooter’s references to the Islamic State and Islam in a thinly veiled attempt to maintain the administration’s messaging that the attack was more about hate towards minority groups than an act of violent Islamic extremism.

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After a massive outpour of outrage, Lynch and the FBI backtracked and released the fully unedited transcripts.

The attorney general said the omissions were also made out of sensitivity to the survivors of the shooting.

5) Lynch Says “True Motive May Never Be Known”
Lynch continued to whitewash the explicit jihadist motivation behind the Orlando attack, even after she relented on the censorship of the 911 call transcripts.

In Orlando, Lynch told prosecutors, first responders, and victims of the tragic shooting during a press conference the “true motive may never be known.”

“Federal investigators are still uncertain as to what drove [Omar] Mateen to violence and to what extent he may also have been motivated by anti-gay hatred,” Lynch said according to The Associated Press.

Despite overwhelming evidence that Mateen’s motivation was to murder Americans as a committed soldier for ISIS, Lynch openly misled the public, attempting to downplay the presence of the radical Islamic elephant in the room.

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