Clinton E-Mail Probe Would Be Hurt by a Deadline, Lynch Says
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her phone at the opening of the Libyan Conference, a meeting of international allies to discuss the next steps for Libya, on March 29, 2011, in London.
Photographer: Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty ImagesThe Justice Department hasn’t set a deadline for the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail because doing so would undercut the probe, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
Investigators will do "a full, thorough and independent review" of whether classified information was mishandled through the use of Clinton’s private e-mail system when she served in President Barack Obama’s administration, Lynch said Thursday when asked whether voters were owed a resolution of the issue as Clinton moves toward securing the Democratic nomination for president.