https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ut-keeping-loretta-lynch-as-attorney-general/
this line, from deep inside a New York Times report over the holiday weekend, comes at a particularly poor time for Lynch — and, by extension, the Clinton campaign:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-president.html
Having women make up half of [Clinton's] cabinet would be historic (in recent years, a quarter to a third of cabinet positions have been held by women), and Democrats close to Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation’s first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015.
It's not clear whether that speculation came before or after Lynch's private tarmac meeting with former president Bill Clinton last week. But even if that meeting had never happened, raising all kinds of chatter about the appearance of impropriety: Lynch remains the person responsible for reviewing and signing off on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Clinton, herself, spoke with investigators Saturday for three and a half hours.
Even Democrats acknowledged the tarmac meeting was a bad idea, and Lynch and Bill Clinton have both said they wouldn't do it again. Acknowledging the "shadow" the meeting has cast over the investigation, Lynch now says she will accept whatever the investigators' recommendations are.
And yet, here are anonymous "Democrats close to Mrs. Clinton" sending out what could be interpreted as a trial balloon, saying that the subject of her department's investigation may, come January 2017, allow Lynch to continue to her job.
However likely that was before news broke of Bill Clinton's meeting with Lynch, it certainly appears less likely now. Should the investigation lead to a slap on the wrist (or less) for Hillary Clinton, renominating Lynch as attorney general risks looking like Clinton returning the favor. Should the investigation come down hard on Clinton, Lynch's decision to sign off on it might not be greatly appreciated by Clintonworld — which, after all, is big on loyalty.