New Dope on That Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Tarmac Meeting

Leaked Info Suggests Clintons Pressured AG Lynch Into Dropping Hillary Case

On June 28, 2016, ABC15 Phoenix morning anchor Christopher Sign got a tip from his most trusted source telling him that former president Bill Clinton and current attorney general Loretta Lynch had met the evening before in a secure area of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Had it not been for the tipster and the the willingness of a local TV station to report news inconvenient to the Democrat agenda, we might never have known of this meeting. Suspicious from the start, thanks to the information released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard in the Durham annex, this rendezvous has grown more suspicious still.

Within hours of the tarmac meeting, someone tipped off Lynch that ABC15 had the story. Knowing this, she delayed a scheduled press conference until she and staff could settle on talking points and share them within the DOJ, including with FBI director James Comey.

At the press conference on June 29, Lynch followed the talking points and insisted that the meeting was unplanned and the conversation with Clinton social. Said Lynch, “Our conversation was a great deal about his grandchildren. It was primarily social and about our travel. He mentioned the golf he’d played in Phoenix, and he mentioned travels he had in West Virginia.” She regretted the meeting but insisted it would have no influence on the ongoing investigations into Hillary Clinton’s private server issues and her Benghazi performance.

According to Christopher Sign, who would write a book on the subject, the meeting was planned, certainly by Clinton whose trip to the Phoenix area was unannounced. He waited in his car for the Lynch plane to arrive and bulled his way into the cabin, all but holding Lynch and her husband hostage for 20 minutes.

When interviewed by US inspector general Michael Horowitz, Lynch expanded on her tarmac conversation with Clinton. “And he made a…comment about West Virginia and coal issues and how their problems really stem from policies that were set forth in 1932. And he talked about those policies for a while. And, and I said, okay, well.”

For his part, “Clinton said that he did not recall mentioning West Virginia coal policy to Lynch.” Always a good liar, he also said he had no idea Lynch would be at the airport. As Christopher Sign pointed out, Clinton never expected to be seen, given the security of the area. If seen, he would have counted on the media to be discreet.

Lynch would tell IG Horowitz she deeply regretted speaking with Clinton under those circumstances. Said her Public Affairs director, ‘[Lynch] doesn’t take mistakes lightly, and she felt like she had made…an incredible…mistake in judgment by saying yes instead of no, that he could come on the plane.”

On July 5, 2016, a week after Lynch’s meeting with Bill Clinton, FBI Director James Comey made his famed announcement on Hillary’s fate. Although she and her people were “extremely careless” in their handling of Hillary’s email system and that “there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” Comey concluded, “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

When interviewed by Horowitz, Comey cited the tarmac meeting as one of the reasons why he decided to end run Lynch and make a unilateral announcement of the the case’s disposition. Another reason he cited was his concern “that certain classified information mentioning Lynch would leak.”

According to the Durham annex, this classified information included leaks that the Clinton campaign was pressuring the DoJ to absolve Hillary of her sins. The tarmac encounter certainly appeared to be evidence of the same, but the leaks cited specific meetings Lynch had with with the political director of the Clinton campaign, Amanda Renteria. The Clintons allegedly hoped to influence the disposition of the “Midyear” investigation, the FBI name for the inquiry into Hillary’s mischief.

The leaked information reportedly came from Dutch intelligence which had been monitoring data Russia had allegedly hacked from a variety of Democrat-friendly sites including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

There is legitimate debate about how reliable this information was, but we do know from his handwritten notes that CIA Director John Brennan took it seriously enough to brief Obama and his national security team. His message, boiled down. was that “candidate Clinton allegedly approved a plan to tie Trump to Russia.”

On August 10, 2016, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and FBI Deputy General Counsel Anderson Trisha Anderson were tasked with telling Lynch that she had been the subject of this leaked information. At the briefing Lynch was shown “reports concerning efforts to improperly influence the Department’s investigations.” These reports spoke of Lynch’s meetings with Renteria.

McCabe was startled by Lynch’s reaction. “I will probably never forget she just finished reading [the reports] and said, okay,” he would tell IG Horowitz. “I mean like I expected more of a reaction than that. Like I expected like, this is crazy, I never talked to that person. But she was absolutely stone faced and said nothing about the content of the memos—which I don’t know how to interpret that.”

As to Anderson, she, too, found it “odd” that Lynch failed to “denounce or object to the contents of the reports relating to her alleged contact with the Clinton campaign.” When later interviewed by the IG’s office, Lynch claimed not to have seen the reports in question and denied knowing who Renteria was.

Unfortunately, Christopher Sign will not be able to help resolve this conundrum. As reward for his efforts in Phoenix, Sign received a rash of “significant death threats” that caused him to enlist police protection for his wife and three sons. In 2017, he took a TV anchor job in Alabama. “That's why I came back to Birmingham,” said Sign, “because when I was enduring the death threats it was my former Alabama football family - my teammates, my coaches - who circled around me.”

In June 2021, five years after breaking the story of his career, the 45-year-old journalist and former Crimson Tide lineman was found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent Arkancide, excuse me, suicide. Whether by chance or design, speaking out about the Clintons is a risky business.

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