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   From: investigate.pelosi@cnn.com   
      
   2016 Election: Maybe it's because she has gotten away with it   
   for so long, but Hillary Clinton seems to get more brazen in her   
   mendacity as she gets closer to the White House. Case in point   
   is her interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News over the weekend.   
      
   At one point, Wallace asks Clinton about claims she made about   
   her use of a private, unsecured email server while secretary of   
   state, which the FBI investigation determined were completely   
   false.   
      
   Wallace shows clips where Clinton says things like: "I did not   
   email any classified material to anyone," and "I never sent nor   
   received any information that was classified at the time," and   
   "I had not sent classified material nor received anything marked   
   classified."   
      
   Note the subtle change in language between the first and last   
   claim, which Clinton had to modify after thousands of emails   
   turned up that the State Department determined to contain   
   classified information.   
      
   But it was all a lie. As FBI Director James Comey pointed out at   
   his press briefing, out of the 30,000 emails Clinton turned   
   over, 110 contain "classified information at the time they were   
   sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information   
   that was Top Secret at the time they were sent." (Emphasis   
   added.)   
      
   Among the thousands of work emails Clinton failed to turn over --   
    despite her repeated statements that she had turned over   
   everything -- "three were classified at the time they were sent   
   or received."   
      
   When Comey testified at a Congressional hearing about his   
   findings, Rep. Trey Gowdy asked him point-blank where Clinton   
   was being truthful in her claims. "That's not true," he said.   
      
   So what was Clinton's response when Wallace confronted her with   
   her own quotes, as well as Comey's statement?   
      
   "Director Comey said my answers were truthful," she told Wallace.   
      
   Let that sink in for a minute.   
      
   Her lie was so blatant that even the Washington Post's in-house   
   fact checker awarded Clinton "Four Pinocchios" -- aka "whoppers."   
      
   In her interview with Wallace, Clinton went on to blame the 300   
   people she emailed with, some of whom, she said, "made the wrong   
   call" when it came to handling classified material.   
      
   But Comey had blown up that defense as well, saying at his press   
   briefing that she and anyone in her position "should have known   
   that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation,"   
   adding that "even if information is not marked 'classified' in   
   an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject   
   matter is classified are still obligated to protect it."   
      
   In other words, one of those people who "made the wrong call"   
   was Clinton herself, since she authored some of the classified   
   emails she sent from her unsecured private email server, and   
   should have known better. Her statement to Wallace that "I take   
   classification seriously" looks like just another lie.   
      
   Clinton defenders will no doubt respond to this by saying that   
   "At this point, what difference does it make?" The FBI let   
   Clinton off the hook. Only her Clinton-hating Republicans   
   critics won't let it go.   
      
   But criminal or not, Clinton's actions when she was secretary of   
   state -- and her lies and obfuscations about it since -- are   
   about judgment, honesty and trustworthiness, which are baseline   
   qualifications for being president.   
      
   As she demonstrated again over the weekend, Clinton glaringly   
   lacks any of these qualities.   
      
   http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/hillary-email-   
   scandal-clinton-takes-lying-to-a-whole-new-level/   
                           
      
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