Washington Post fact checker downgrades Hillary’s email claims and gives her FOUR Pinocchios after FBI director’s speech
By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter
Dailymail.com
6 July 2016
Hillary Clinton may have gotten an all-clear from the FBI, but her claims about never emailing classified information have been rated even more false by the Washington Post’s fact checker.
The Post added to her number of Pinocchios – from two to four – in light of the information divulged by FBI Director James Comey in his statement yesterday.
Comey said yesterday that of the 30,000 emails Clinton returned to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains were found ‘to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.’
Eight of the chains the FBI investigated contained information that was ‘top secret’ when sent, while 36 chains held ‘secret’ information.
Another eight contained ‘confidential’ information, which is the lowest tier of classification.
After-the-fact, 2,000 emails were ‘up-classified,’ meaning the information in them is now classified, though didn’t have that distinction when they were originally sent.
Clinton initially claimed that ‘this process will prove that I never sent nor received any email that was marked classified,’ the Democratic candidate said in Iowa in August of 2015.
‘Whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is,’ she said in Las Vegas the same month, the Washington Post pointed out.
Comey explained that last point during yesterday’s presser, saying that ‘only a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.’
‘But even if information is not marked “classified” in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it,’ he continued, shaming the likely Democratic nominee.
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