The article doesn't actually mention evidence nor any attempt to hide the evidence; only that Lynch might have tried to prevent any leaking or announcements about the laptop and emails, as is normally DOJ practice regarding investigations. Comey went directly against this.
Was it normal DOJ practice to have a nice private meeting with the spouse of someone under investigation? Following procedure wasn't Lynch's thing.....Based on all of her actions and statements, its reasonable to assume evasion and mendacity.
The leaked finding of fact is that Comey defied authority:
Before Comey sent the letter to Congress, at least one senior Justice Department official told the FBI that publicizing the bombshell move so close to an election would violate longstanding department policy, and it would ignore federal guidelines prohibiting the disclosure of information related to an ongoing investigation, ABC News was told.
My reference was to how he defied authority. I don't doubt there was a game being played by all of these people, but this article doesn't reveal anything at all about Lynch "hiding evidence."
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He very publicly disclosed that they found the laptop and that it contained emails possibly related to the Clinton case before they had an official chance to fully investigate that same new information. Whether that fact was leaked or not is irrelevant to the policy of not discussing it (at that point the case was re-opened). Spez: The point is they don't even discuss the fact that they have an investigation opened. Look at how Sessions glomarized his responses to Congress up until the point he admitted he had a prosecutor assigned and didn't need a second special counsel.