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$trxokPeterP.(C0 (F8 From: Strzok, Peter P. (CD) (F8))) Sent? Friday, 3aiy 01.20165:37 A8 To: RSO)(MD) (NSO) (MD b6 -1 IUSAVAEH (WSAVAE) Subject: Fwd: Lyneh to Renove Herself From Decision Cver Ointon Emails, Qtfcial Says - NyTimes.com r-c&refererwos.//www.googe.con. Lynch to Remove Herself From Decision Over Clinton Emails, Official Says. Axlomey Generst Loreita E. Lynth plsns to snnounce on Friday that she will accept whetaver recommendatlon career prosecutors and the F.B.l. director make abaut whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton's personal emal server, a Justice Department official said. Her decision. removes the possioiity that a poltical appointee wil overrule investigators in the case. The Justice Department had been mowing toward such an anangement for months -- oficlals said in. April that st wss being considered -- but a private mseting between Mis. Lynch and forrner President Bil cinton this week set off a poltical furor and made the decision all but inevitable. Republicans said the reeting, whicn took place Rt the Phoenix airpon, had conpromised the. ndependanca oftne investigation as theF.s.l.was winding t down.Some cailad for ws.Lynchto recuse herself, buxt she did not take herself off the case --- one that could infuence a presidentia! eiection. Ms. Lynch plans to discuss the matter at a conterence in Aspen, Colo., on Friday. The Justice. Department decined to comment.The ptticial who continned the discussion did so on the condition of anonymity because the internal decision-making process is nomally kept confidential. The F.8u. is investigating whether Mrs. Chinton, her oides or anyone eise broke the law by seting up e. server was used to send classified information, and Repubicans have selzed on the matter to guestion Mrs.Chnton's jodgment. For the Justice Deoarment, the central question is whether the conduct met the legal standard for the erime of miskanding dlassited intormation. FBI-40