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Hillary Email Scandal: Clinton Takes Lying To A Whole New Level

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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.

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