Edward Klein - Guilty as Sin : Uncovering New Evidence of Corruption and How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Derailed the FBI Investigation.

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Copyright 2016 by Edward Klein

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ALSO BY EDWARD KLEIN

NONFICTION

All Too Human:

The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy

Just Jackie:

Her Private Years

The Kennedy Curse:

Why Tragedy Has Haunted Americas First Family for 150 Years

Farewell, Jackie: A Portrait of Her Final Days

The Truth about Hillary:

What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far Shell Go to Become President

Katie:

The Real Story

Ted Kennedy:

The Dream That Never Died

The Amateur:

Barack Obama in the White House

Blood Feud:

The Clintons vs. the Obamas

Unlikeable:

The Problem with Hillary

NOVELS

If Israel Lost the War

(With Robert Littell and Richard Z. Chesnoff)

The Parachutists

The Obama Identity

(With John LeBoutillier)

ANTHOLOGIES

About Men

(With Don Erickson)

For D.J.B. Forever

CONTENTS

The Executive Terminal at Phoenix Sky Harbor

International Airport

Monday, June 27, 2016

B ill Clintons private jet was cleared for takeoff and was taxiing toward the active runway when a Secret Service agent informed him that Attorney General Loretta Lynchs plane was coming in for a landing.

Dont take off! Bill barked.

As his plane skidded to a halt and then headed back to its parking space, Bill grabbed a phone and called an old friendone of his most trusted legal advisers.

Bill said, I want to bushwhack Loretta, the adviser recalled in an interview for this book. Im going to board her plane. What do you think? And I said, Theres no downside for you, but shes going to take a pounding if shes crazy enough to let you on her plane.

He knew it would be a huge embarrassment to Loretta when people found out that she had talked to the husband of a womanthe presumptive nominee of the Democratic Partywho was under criminal investigation by the FBI, the adviser continued. But he didnt give a damn. He wanted to intimidate Loretta and discredit [FBI Director James] Comeys investigation of Hillarys emails, which was giving Hillarys campaign agita.

Bill hung up the phone and turned to a Secret Service agent.

As soon as her plane lands, he said, get the attorney general on the phone and say the president would like to have a word with her.

Several minutes later, Loretta Lynch came on an encrypted phone line.

Lynch owed the former president big time. Seventeen years before, he had appointed her U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, one of the highest profile prosecutorial posts in the country. Now, the man who had made her career was on the phone inviting himself to visit her on her plane, and Lynch couldnt bring herself to say no.

Bill walked across the seventy-five yards that separated his plane from hers. It was 108 degrees in Phoenix, and Bill later recalled that he could feel the heat through the soles of his shoes.

Meanwhile, his Secret Service detail and Lynchs uniformed FBI agents were frantically scurrying around her plane, trying to secure the area. They ordered everyone to put away cell phones. No pictures of this meeting would be allowed.

Bill shook hands with Lynchs agents and nodded to the Air Force pilot standing at attention at the bottom of the stairs.

He told me he bounded up the stairs of her plane on pure adrenalin, Bills adviser said. It brought out the old fighter in him. During Hillarys campaign, hed been feeling weak; he didnt have the fire in his belly. But his fury over the FBI witch-hunt of his wife, whom he loves with a passion despite all the shit he gets up tothat infuriated him. You can say anything you want about him, and hell let it go. But attack his wife, and hell try to destroy you.

Once inside Lynchs plane, Bill turned on the Clinton charm. He gave Lynchs shoulder an affectionate squeeze and shook hands with her husband, Stephen Hargrove.

Bill said he could tell that Loretta knew from the get-go that shed made a huge mistake, his adviser said. She was literally trembling, shaking with nervousness. Her husband tried to comfort her; he kept patting her hand and rubbing her back.

Bill made small talk about golf and grandchildren and [former Attorney General] Janet Reno, and he kept at it for nearly a half hour. It didnt make any difference what they talked about; all he wanted to do was send a message to everyone at Justice and the FBI that Hillary had the full weight of the Clinton machine, the Democratic Party, and the White House behind her.

It was clearly tortuous for Loretta. Bill told me later that he noticed there were beads of sweat on her upper lip.

Like all attorneys general, Loretta is accustomed to being treated as royalty wherever she goes, but here she was sitting in her plane, entirely helpless, being intimidated by this wickedly clever old coyote, who had bushwhacked her on the Arizona desert.

Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, Colorado

Friday, July 1, 2016

On the final day of the Aspen Institutes annual summer get-together for self-congratulating liberal elites, Jonathan Capehart, a member of the Washington Post editorial board and an MSNBC contributor, interviewed Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

It was four days since the airport encounter between Lynch and Bill Clinton, and in the public furor that ensued, everyoneDemocrats and Republicans alikeagreed that the meeting had seriously compromised the FBIs investigation into Hillarys use of an unsecure private email system when she was secretary of state.

Capehart and Lynch sat on a raised stage, a few feet apartthe thin, wiry journalist dressed incongruously in a dark wintry suit; the attorney general in a black dress, pink jacket, and a double strand of pearls.

You have a reputation of having the highest integrity, utmost, solid judgment, Capehart began.... A lot of people were like... friends, supporters, backers, are saying, What on earth was she thinking? talking to Bill Clinton?