By Jerome Corsi and Garth Kant

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee that it would be "inappropriate" for her to comment on the facts of the Hillary Clinton email scandal.

At the start of the hearing, time and again, chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., grilled her about FBI Director James Comey's findings that many of Clinton's public statements on the key issues of her use of a private email server were contradicted by the facts the bureau uncovered.

And, time and again, Lynch referred those questions to the Comey.

She refused to discuss both the facts and analysis of findings that led Comey to recommend charges not be filed against Clinton.

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Goodlatte began the hearing by announcing he has asked the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to investigate Hillary Clinton for making false statements about her emails under oath to the House Benghazi committee.

The chairman said it appears Clinton testified falsely before that committee about the use of her private email server, given the evidence unearthed by the FBI.

That includes the revelation that, contrary to Clinton's testimony that there was no classified information on her server, the FBI found 110 documents with such information.

The chairman said Lynch's meeting with Bill Clinton at the Phoenix airport was "uniquely troubling" if the FBI is also investigating the Clinton Foundation because, five days after that encounter the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton, and three days later, Comey announced he would not recommend charges against her in the email scandal.

Lynch once again insisted she and the former president did not discuss any cases under investigation by the Justice Department, including the email scandal.

The hearing was called to also address several other issues facing the Justice Department, including the terrorist attacks in Orlando and San Bernardino; what Goodlatte called the politicization of the department under the Obama administration; the sanctuary city policy; and the administration's use of mortgage settlements to provide money to activist groups.

In what appears to have been a coordinated effort behind the scenes by the Democrats on the committee, each Democrat, starting with the ranking member, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., attempted to change the subject from exploring why Lynch refused to prosecute Clinton to questions about Black Lives Matters and their agenda to restrict Second Amendment rights by using incidents such as the Dallas massacre to pass new gun control laws.