The comment appears to be based on fired FBI Director James Comey's testimony last week about conversations he had with Ms. Lynch involving the FBI investigation into Mrs. Clinton's email practices. Mr. Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that Ms. Lynch had wanted him to use an anodyne term for the email probe that he believed was inaccurate, albeit aligned with Mrs. Clinton's political interests. She asked him to call the investigation "a matter" - a request that gave him a "queasy" feeling, he said. A spokeswoman for Ms. Lynch did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They have implicitly accepted as true Mr. Comey's statement that Mr. Trump was not under investigation and they have also highlighted Mr. Comey's statements about the Clinton email probe.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 13, 2017 15:11 UTC