by Walter W. Murray, reporter

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has just been BUSTED in a desperate attempt to cover-up a highly unethical and legally questionable meeting last year.

During the height of the 2016 campaign, as her Justice Department investigated criminal allegations against failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Lynch had a secret tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix.

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Naturally, they insist they didn’t talk about the investigation.

Yet they suspiciously went through a lot of effort to try to hide the whole thing — and the meeting itself was only revealed thanks to a sharp-eyed local reporter at the scene.

Now, internal emails newly obtained by a watchdog organization reveal the extent to which the feds tried to cover up this mess after it was exposed… including messages sent by the attorney general herself under a SECRET name!

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The emails obtained by the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) through a Freedom of Information Act request turned up messages to and from someone named “Elizabeth Carlisle” as higher-ups tried to manipulate talking points around this shady story.

The heavily redacted emails show panic at the highest levels when they realize the story of the secret meeting was going to break, and eventually “Elizabeth Carlisle” is looped into the chain.

There was no one in the department with that name, but The Daily Caller has confirmed that Elizabeth Carlisle was secretly Loretta Lynch.

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In case there were any doubts, however, one email practically spills the beans.

“Thanks to all who worked on this,” said a reply from the Elizabeth Carlisle account.

But the email wasn’t signed “Elizabeth,” “Liz” or “Beth.”

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It was signed “AG” — as in attorney general.

Busted.

This little name game isn’t illegal, but it certainly is sneaky and seems intended to help Lynch cover her tracks in two sinister ways.

First, any would-be whistleblowers in her department forwarding her messages wouldn’t be able to “prove” that the emails came from Lynch, since the digital trail would point to someone named Elizabeth Carlisle.

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And second, the phony name masks her involvement, making it harder for watchdogs such as the ACLJ to obtain key documents.

Filing a Freedom of Information Act request for “Loretta Lynch” communications on a certain topic – including this one – could mean that “Elizabeth Carlisle” documents wouldn’t be turned over.

This seems to have been a habit in the Barack Obama administration. Her predecessor, Eric Holder, used the alias “Lew Alcinder.” Former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson liked to masquerade digitally as “Richard Windsor,” while scandal-plagued IRS official Lois Lerner used her dog’s name, “Toby Miles,” for email.

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Even those just outside the administration made up fantasy names for communications.

Chelsea Clinton sent emails as “Diane Reynolds” when writing to her mother, perhaps to cover up her role as an unofficial and unapproved informal “advisor” outside the oversight of Congress.

Even Obama himself was busted using a phony name, according to a 2016 report in Politico!

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The ACLJ has hinted that there could be more explosive revelations still to come.

“The Obama-Lynch DOJ is still hiding the truth from the public. But we’re cutting through the deceit and deception. We will get to the bottom of the unethical corrupt actions of former Attorney General Lynch,” the organization vowed. “We will hold those responsible for the lawless Obama DOJ accountable.”

— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a conservative with decades of experience in both news and survivalism and the author of “America’s Final Warning.”