August 6, 2016 at 6:57 am 7
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she “short-circuited” during an interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace when she claimed FBI Director James Comey validated her statements regarding her private email as “truthful.”
In actuality, Comey called Clinton’s handling of government information, some of it classified, “extremely careless.” In subsequent testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Comey told Republicans in charge of the panel several of Clinton’s statements regarding her email use while secretary of state were not backed up by the facts uncovered in their investigation.
Ultimately, Comey said the FBI found evidence there were a small number of emails that contained classified information that were handled by Clinton using her unencrypted personal email system, in violation of federal rules for handling high-level secrets. Comey declined to recommend Clinton be prosecuted, however, saying there was no evidence Clinton or her aides intended to skirt federal law or leak the information.
In an interview Sunday on Fox News, Clinton told Wallace that Comey’s investigation vindicated her public statements about her email use, specifically that she never sent or received classified information......To Read More...
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