Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston
New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, has a career filled with high profile cases — and she was a member of Bill Clinton’s defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe.
As he made his announcement Saturday afternoon, Obama called the two-time U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York a “tough, fair and independent” lawyer.
“It’s pretty hard to be more qualified for this job than Loretta Lynch,” Obama said.
Indeed, the prosecutor has a long career built of some high profile cases but there is one case Lynch was involved in that few are talking about. Lynch was a part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense team in 1992.
In 1992, the Clintons came under fire for investing in a perennially failing Arkansas real estate company known as Whitewater Development, a venture heavily subsidized by Clinton friend Jim McDougal in an effort to soften the losses the Clintons were experiencing as investors. The probe was widened to look into the failure of the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan to which it was connected. Eventually the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won several convictions handing jail time to the McDougals as well as Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker.
The Clintons escaped any convictions in the probe.
A New York Times article from March of 1992 reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons’ Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a “campaign aide.”
Not long after Whitewater, Lynch, 55, made a name for herself as part of the team that defended Haitian immigrant Abner Louima after he was brutalized by New York police in 1997. In the shocking case it was revealed that police sodomized Louima with a broken broomstick, beat him savagely, and then worked to cover up the assault.
In the end, several New York City police officers were convicted in the case.
Lynch has also been a key prosecutor in cases of terrorism, financial fraud, and cybercrime, but it is her part in the Louima case of which she is “most proud.”
But ahead of her nomination, Republican Senators Mike Lee and Tex Cruz are demanding that Lynch make a statement denouncing Obama’s planned executive order of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.
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When Obama was giving speeches about “change”…”change you can believe in”….did you think he was talking about jailing bankers for fraud? Did you think he was talking about ending the wars in the middle east? Did you think he was talking about giving the average man a government job building roads, bridges and parks? No. The change he was talking about is “if your skin is black or brown you git the government job”. Whitey out, coloreds in. THAT’S what he meant by the word “change”. (Surprise!!) The jokes on you.
The race angle is used to create division amongst those simple-minded enough to embrace it. Their plans work perfectly on idiots.
Btw I am DEEPLY committed to my white western European heritage and will not ignore any and all of our contributions to society. But I do know when I am being played and know that We are Americans here and We will ALL die if we don’t act like it together.
This government continues to distance itself from the general population through its in-your-face actions of supporting race extremists of all stripes. Voting left-right, R/D isn’t going to solve the problem, only direct action will.
First it is Janet Reno’s chief of staff from the Waco days nominated for AG. Now this POS. What is Amerika being set up for?
A red flag Andy, and this ain’t a bullfight.
Idiots at Zionist Breitbart site stink: get the wrong “Loretta Lynch”:
Breitbart’s Attack On Obama Attorney General Nominee Goes After The Wrong Loretta Lynch
Following publication of this, Breitbart.com added corrections to the articles that confused the two attorneys, noting at bottom that “[t]he Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.” Later on November 9, Breitbart.com removed the article by Warner Todd Huston. The full article can be read here.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/09/breitbarts-attack-on-obama-attorney-general-nom/201511