Hillary Clinton
In a campaign dispute that could end up as memorable as when Bill Clinton said, about accusations regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” the presidential campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton, has denied the results of the FBI’s investigation into her email scandal.
The Washington Examiner said on Monday that Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook told MSNBC there wasn’t any classified information sent over her private, and unsecured, email system.
That’s after the presidential candidate herself claimed in an interview over the weekend that she heard the FBI say her statements were truthful.
The fight is over her use of a private and off-the-books email system while she was secretary of state, a system the FBI found was used inappropriately for classified information.
In fact, FBI Director James Comey told members of Congress, and reporters, that Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified emails.
While saying he would not recommend criminal charges, he said Clinton had sent or received dozens of emails that were classified at the time they were sent, the report said.
And he confirmed the former secretary of state did not turn over thousands of work-related emails to the State Department.
On Monday, Mook responded to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who said, “She was forcing everybody that wanted to communicate with her to move out of the classified realm, where you send classified information, and then put it on their own servers and send it to her. Isn’t that even worse?”
Mook shot back, “You’d understand this, that’s simply not true. You just don’t send classified information over the unclassified system.”
When Scarborough responded, “You would understand this: the FBI director said she did,” Mook ignored the FBI’s conclusion that more than 100 email threads contained classified information “that was classified at the time they were sent,” the report said.
Mook was just doubling down on what Hillary Clinton said over the weekend, in an interview with Chris Wallace:
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Comey, she claimed, “Said my answers were truthful.”
As she put it, “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”
The Washington Post, however, gave the statements a “four Pinocchios” rating.
Explained the report, “Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative about the unusual setup of a private email server. This allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation.
“For instance, when Clinton asserts ‘my answers were truthful,’ a campaign aide said she is referring to this statement by Comey to Congress: ‘We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.’”
“But that’s not the whole story,” the report said. “When House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked whether Clinton had lied to the American public, Comey dodged: ‘That’s a question I’m not qualified to answer. I can speak about what she said to the FBI.’”
At the Journal-Review, Justin Green concluded that, “Hillary Clinton didn’t tell the truth about her emails, and she’s still not telling the truth about her emails.”
“Comey was saying that Clinton hadn’t lied to the FBI. While the FBI would not release any transcript or recording of its interview with Clinton, all the director was saying is they had no evidence of her lying … to them.”
That original exchange between Comey and Congress already has become classic in American politics:
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Rep. Trey Gowdy had a terse exchange with Comey.
From Gowdy, “Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, either sent or received. Was that true?”
Comey: “That’s not true.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said, ‘I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email, there is no classified material.’ Was that true?”
Comey: “There was classified material emailed.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said she used just one device. Was that true?”
Comey: “She used multiple devices.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?”
Comey: “No, we found work-related emails, thousands … ”
Back in the day, Slate’s Timothy Noah noted the response from Bill Clinton about Lewinsky.
“The distinction between ‘is’ and ‘was’ was seized on by the commentariat when Clinton told Jim Lehrer of PBS right after the Lewinsky story broke, ‘There is no improper relationship.’ Chatterbox confesses that at the time he thought all these beltway domes were hyperanalyzing, and in need of a little fresh air. But it turns out they were right: Bill Clinton really is a guy who’s willing to think carefully about ‘what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.’ This is way beyond slick.”
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