At the conclusion of the FBI’s investigation, Comey said the agency had found many troubling practices surrounding Clinton’s email use as secretary of state, and in his testimony before Congress, the FBI director did not back Clinton’s public statements in which Clinton said she had not sent or received classified information on the private server.
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In her first press conference in nearly a year, Mrs. Clinton said she and Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace were “talking around each other” and she misunderstood his question.
Accordingly, like Director Comey said in announcing that he would not recommend an indictment against Clinton, “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”.
Clinton speaks at the joint convention for national associations of black and Hispanic journalists on Friday. Clinton reiterated her campaign pledge of comprehensive immigration restructuring with a path to citizenship and said her administration would not be “deporting hardworking people and break up families”. She then named several African-American friends, women in particular, and drew laughs from the audience when she described how “they’ve supported me, they’ve chastised me, they’ve tried to expand my musical tastes”.
She later shifted her explanation to say she never sent or received “any emails marked classified at the time”. “This will be fast-tracked”, Clinton said, expressing hope that Democrats will retake the upper chamber and gain seats in the House. Never mind that the director never commented on what she told the public.
Both presidential candidates are being questioned on their truthfulness Friday as Hillary Clinton faced reporters and Donald Trump did an about-face on Twitter. And yet, despite multiple fact-checking sites calling Clinton’s assertion incorrect (Politifact gave the comment a “Pants on Fire” rating) Clinton repeated it again later in the week in an interview with KUSA.
But when Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., offered some of Clinton’s public statements – that there was nothing marked classified in her emails, and that she did not email classified material – Comey said those statements were “not true”.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said, “Judging from the way Hillary Clinton kept lying at today’s event, it’s not hard to see why she hasn’t held a press conference in 244 days”.
As I’ve argued previously, it’s patently obvious that Hillary told the truth based on the facts she knew at the time. Clinton was the country’s top diplomat, subject to federal recordkeeping laws and legally obliged to handle classified material responsibly.
“Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information”.
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FactCheckDotOrg said Comey told that hearing that those emails “could have been missed by Clinton” when what he actually said was that a person who’s an “expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified” would reasonably infer “that those three documents were not classified”.
