{"id":253296,"date":"2016-07-01T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-criticism\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:16:19","slug":"bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bill-clintons-secret-meeting-with-loretta-lynch-sparks-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton\u2019s secret meeting with Loretta Lynch sparks criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"115\">\n<p><strong>Former US President Bill Clinton\u2019s secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid a federal probe into former first lady Hillary Clinton\u2019s email case has spurred bipartisan questions, forcing Lynch to step back from the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The private meeting took place this week at the Phoenix airport, when Clinton found out that Lynch was there, people familiar with the matter told American media.<\/p>\n<p>The two then spoke for 20 minutes in Lynch\u2019s government jet, in the presence of Lynch\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was apparently not scheduled as Lynch was in the city to meet with local police departments, while the former president had attended a fundraising event for his wife\u2019s presidential campaign. She is running as the presumptive Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160701\/8da9acfd-4e5d-408e-a98c-6f414184802e.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (AFP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a press conference on Tuesday, Lynch denied addressing the email case in the meeting, saying that she only talked about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/01\/473121\/Hillary-Bill-Clinton-Lynch-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President Bill Clinton\u2019s secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch amid a federal probe into former first lady Hillary Clinton\u2019s email case has spurred bipartisan questions, forcing Lynch to step back from the case. The private meeting took place this week at the Phoenix airport, when Clinton found out that Lynch was there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}