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Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch responded on Thursday to an ongoing Senate Judiciary Committee probe, saying she would fully cooperate and answer questions about her alleged political interference in the FBI Clinton email investigation.In a two-page letter replying to a June 22 inquiry from a mix of Democrats and Republicans, Lynch s lawyer Robert Raben responded to s stanley cup ix questions stemming from an April New York Times report that a Democratic operative had expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far. Those communications did not take place, the statement in the letter read. Raben disputed the Times reporting, which was eventually corrobo stanley taza rated by The Washington Post in May, that Lynch -- while overseeing a probe into Clinton s use of a private email server -- had inappropriately contacted former Clinton adviser Amanda Renteria.The Post s report indicated stanley quencher that that information originated from a Russian intelligence document detailing a supposed email conversation between former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Open Society Foundations Leonard Benardo about Lynch reassuring Renteria. Fake document possibly from Russians may have influenced Clinton email investigation 02:10 Ms. Lynch does not know Ms. Renteria, did not discuss the Cli Imeo N.Y. Democrat Owens Wins House Seat
Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a super market that, what the Bush administration calls the surge was actually made up of a number of components, some of which began before the president s order for more troops.It s all a matter of semantics, he suggested. McCain said Army Col. Sean MacFarland started carrying out elements of a new counterinsu stanley cup rgency strategy as early as December 2006.At issue are McCain s comments in a Tuesday interview with CBS News. The Arizona senator disputed Democrat Barack Obama s contention that a Sunni revolt against al Qaeda combined with the dispatch of thousands more U. stanley quencher S. combat troops to Iraq to produce the improved security situation there. McCain called that a false depiction. CBS News anchor Katie Couric spoke exclusively Tuesday to Barack Obama in Amman and to McCain via satellite. | Full video. | Full video.Democrats jumped on his comments. They said McCain s remarks showed he was out of touch, because the rebellion of stanley cup U.S.-backed Sunni sheiks against al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq s Anbar province was under way well before Bush announced in January 2007 his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq.McCain asserted he knew that and didn t com
Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch responded on Thursday to an ongoing Senate Judiciary Committee probe, saying she would fully cooperate and answer questions about her alleged political interference in the FBI Clinton email investigation.In a two-page letter replying to a June 22 inquiry from a mix of Democrats and Republicans, Lynch s lawyer Robert Raben responded to s stanley cup ix questions stemming from an April New York Times report that a Democratic operative had expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far. Those communications did not take place, the statement in the letter read. Raben disputed the Times reporting, which was eventually corrobo stanley taza rated by The Washington Post in May, that Lynch -- while overseeing a probe into Clinton s use of a private email server -- had inappropriately contacted former Clinton adviser Amanda Renteria.The Post s report indicated stanley quencher that that information originated from a Russian intelligence document detailing a supposed email conversation between former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Open Society Foundations Leonard Benardo about Lynch reassuring Renteria. Fake document possibly from Russians may have influenced Clinton email investigation 02:10 Ms. Lynch does not know Ms. Renteria, did not discuss the Cli Imeo N.Y. Democrat Owens Wins House Seat
Republican John McCain pushed back on Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a super market that, what the Bush administration calls the surge was actually made up of a number of components, some of which began before the president s order for more troops.It s all a matter of semantics, he suggested. McCain said Army Col. Sean MacFarland started carrying out elements of a new counterinsu stanley cup rgency strategy as early as December 2006.At issue are McCain s comments in a Tuesday interview with CBS News. The Arizona senator disputed Democrat Barack Obama s contention that a Sunni revolt against al Qaeda combined with the dispatch of thousands more U. stanley quencher S. combat troops to Iraq to produce the improved security situation there. McCain called that a false depiction. CBS News anchor Katie Couric spoke exclusively Tuesday to Barack Obama in Amman and to McCain via satellite. | Full video. | Full video.Democrats jumped on his comments. They said McCain s remarks showed he was out of touch, because the rebellion of stanley cup U.S.-backed Sunni sheiks against al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq s Anbar province was under way well before Bush announced in January 2007 his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq.McCain asserted he knew that and didn t com