According to Felten, the reality was quite different than the answer she gave to the press. Although spokespeople for the Attorney General tried to characterize it as a “chance” meeting, “it was anything but.” Lynch had just touched down in Phoenix ahead of a meeting scheduled for the next day at a local police station. During her testimony, Lynch “explained there was a standard protocol for getting everyone off the plane. They would always deplane in a series, “security detail first, my staff [next], and then I would leave and go immediately to the car. Security exited, then the staff, all as per normal.” She told lawmakers that, as she and her husband “walked to the door, the head of my security detail came to me and said: ‘Ma’am, I’ve been informed that former President Clinton is also at the airfield and would like to say hello.’” Seconds later, “former President Clinton was standing in the doorway of the plane.”
