Obama’s Attorney General Accidentally Spills The Truth About Obama’s ‘Corruption’

"I have seen firsthand ..."

Joe Saunders October 20, 2016 at 1:10pm

Hard as it is to believe, someone in the Obama administration can tell the truth sometimes.

That’s what happened Thursday, when Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivered a speech in Europe describing the poisonous effects of public corruption in an otherwise healthy democracy.

Unfortunately for America’s chief law enforcement officer, for the Obama administration, and especially for Hillary Clinton, what Lynch said wasn’t at all the truth she meant to lay out.

Speaking before a meeting of European interior ministers in Rome, Obama’s attorney general decried a culture of corruption in government, and explained how it erodes the trust that’s necessary in a democracy between a free people and their elected officials.

For a European audience that might not be following every twist and turn of American presidential politics, Lynch’s comments probably came across as the kind of harmless pablum top officials use when they’re talking to each other in public settings.

But to an American who has watched the disintegration of law and order at the country’s highest levels – reaching its logical conclusion with the nomination of a thoroughly corrupt candidate to the presidency of the United States – the speech is a telling exposé both laughable and appalling.

Here is a partial text released by the Department of Justice.

“And like many of you, I have seen firsthand how corruption, at bottom, is about breaking trust. It is about undermining citizens’ belief in their elected officials. It is about betraying the people’s faith that when public monies are spent on services for citizens – from infrastructure to education – none of those funds will be misappropriated for selfish ends.
“And it is about poisoning the civic spirit of a people – displacing passion with cynicism, and solidarity with suspicion. And that is why the U.S. Department of Justice has made it a priority to root out, prosecute, and prevent corruption.”

So, the attorney general of the Obama administration has seen “firsthand” how corruption is about breaking trust? You could say that she has, considering this is the same attorney general who vowed to keep the Justice Department out of any decisions related to a criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton until the FBI completed its recommendation into her use of a private email server during her years as secretary of state.

For some reason, Attorney General Lynch didn’t see fit to mention her famous meetingon an out-of-the-way airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton while that same investigation into his wife was still in progress – a meeting that would have remained secret if it had not been for the presence of a quick-thinking local news crew.

For some reason (probably having to do with the location of her talk), Lynch devoted the majority of her speech to the Justice Department’s probe of corruption in the soccer world’s international governing body, neglecting to mention the get-out-of-jail free cards her department issued to the woman who might be the next president – as well as herinner circle of accomplices.

But the thrust of Lynch’s speech was dead on – and a scathing indictment of herself, the department she leads, and the president she serves.

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