Bush AG: Lynch 'Betrayal' Made DOJ 'An Arm Of The Clinton Campaign'

During Thursday's testimony Comey told committee members that Lynch had asked him to refer to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails as a "matter," rather than an "investigation".

In addition to his testimony about President Trump and the Russian Federation investigation, former FBI Director James Comey testified on the suspicious actions of Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday.

Mukasey was asked if former AG Lynch could face any problems for her order to then-Director Comey.

"At one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an 'investigation, ' but to call it a 'matter, ' which confused me and concerned me", Comey said. Earlier this year, he cemented his image as a decidedly neutral party while responding to questions about FBI's inquiries regarding both Clinton and Donald Trump. Comey expressed concern and claimed that the Clinton campaign resorted to deploying "euphemisms" - such as "matter" - to describe the email investigation.

Comey said he complied with Lynch's directive to use the "inaccurate" terminology because it "wasn't a hill worth dying on". In spite of Comey disagreeing with Lynch's request to use her "matter" descriptor, he said that he chose to move on. It's on full display with his actions toward Comey.

"After former President Clinton met on the plane with [then Attorney General Loretta Lynch], I considered whether I should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that that would be an unfair thing to do because I knew there was no case there". We had a criminal investigation open before the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Comey said the alleged collusion led him "in an ultimately conclusive way" to hold a press conference to "separate" the investigation from A.G. Lynch's pressure.