Hillary Clinton admitted today that she continues to lie about her mishandling of classified e-mail...
Hillary Clinton admitted today that she continues to lie about her mishandling of classified e-mail.
Executive Summary: Clinton falsely claimed that none of her public statements were false; then she admitted that some of her public statements were false (she admitted she sent or received e-mails classified at the time); and she falsely asserted that whether the e-mails were marked classified really matters.
Details: Clinton still maintains that the things she said in public were truthful, and consistent with what she said in a secret interview with FBI Director James Comey. She says she didn't mean to say Comey said her public statements were truthful, only that they were consistent with what she told Comey, and that Comey said what she told him was truthful.
But she denies the fact that Comey said, explicitly, that the content of several of her public statements was false. He did. She is lying. (She also lied when she said today that the point is the FBI statements, since we don't even know what she said to the FBI, and all we have is her public statements.)
But oddly, she then went on to admit that her public statements were false, conceding that some of the e-mails were classified at the time. She just disregards the fact that she ever said that they weren't.
Her main excuse -- which is also a lie -- is that it is "reasonable to conclude" that she and others would not have "suspected that they were classified" without proper markings, and none of the documents had that.
But Comey tells us the opposite. He was clear that it is the job of people in her position to know that information is classified, even if not marked, especially in the case of the several Top Secret documents. Markings are not necessary to know that something is classified, if you're the Secretary of State. Saying something is not marked classified is not an excuse under the law. Indeed, if you are not certain of the classification, you are required to treat it as classified.
Clinton saying it is reasonable to conclude that something isn't classified just because it is not marked classified is, simply, a lie. If she actually believes that, then she's utterly incompetent (and I don't believe she is).
She reiterated another excuse -- which is also a lie -- that if the documents are retroactively declassified, that this somehow mitigates the mishandling. It does not.
She is lying when she said her public statements were truthful. She is lying when she says that what matters in the question is her FBI statements. She is lying when she says that it is reasonable to conclude a document not "properly marked" as classified, is not classified. She is lying when she implies that she never said she didn't send or receive information that was classified at the time.
She lies a lot. Not that this is news ... but she continues to lie about illegally mishandling classified information, and that should be news.
Executive Summary: Clinton falsely claimed that none of her public statements were false; then she admitted that some of her public statements were false (she admitted she sent or received e-mails classified at the time); and she falsely asserted that whether the e-mails were marked classified really matters.
Details: Clinton still maintains that the things she said in public were truthful, and consistent with what she said in a secret interview with FBI Director James Comey. She says she didn't mean to say Comey said her public statements were truthful, only that they were consistent with what she told Comey, and that Comey said what she told him was truthful.
But she denies the fact that Comey said, explicitly, that the content of several of her public statements was false. He did. She is lying. (She also lied when she said today that the point is the FBI statements, since we don't even know what she said to the FBI, and all we have is her public statements.)
But oddly, she then went on to admit that her public statements were false, conceding that some of the e-mails were classified at the time. She just disregards the fact that she ever said that they weren't.
Her main excuse -- which is also a lie -- is that it is "reasonable to conclude" that she and others would not have "suspected that they were classified" without proper markings, and none of the documents had that.
But Comey tells us the opposite. He was clear that it is the job of people in her position to know that information is classified, even if not marked, especially in the case of the several Top Secret documents. Markings are not necessary to know that something is classified, if you're the Secretary of State. Saying something is not marked classified is not an excuse under the law. Indeed, if you are not certain of the classification, you are required to treat it as classified.
Clinton saying it is reasonable to conclude that something isn't classified just because it is not marked classified is, simply, a lie. If she actually believes that, then she's utterly incompetent (and I don't believe she is).
She reiterated another excuse -- which is also a lie -- that if the documents are retroactively declassified, that this somehow mitigates the mishandling. It does not.
She is lying when she said her public statements were truthful. She is lying when she says that what matters in the question is her FBI statements. She is lying when she says that it is reasonable to conclude a document not "properly marked" as classified, is not classified. She is lying when she implies that she never said she didn't send or receive information that was classified at the time.
She lies a lot. Not that this is news ... but she continues to lie about illegally mishandling classified information, and that should be news.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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