Hillary’s Claim of ‘Zero’ Classified Emails Fact-Checked — ‘Astonishingly False’

Hillary’s Claim of ‘Zero’ Classified Emails Fact-Checked — ‘Astonishingly False’

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew mockery and ridicule after claiming she had “zero” classified information on a private email server, even as she attempted to criticize former President Donald Trump over his clash with the Justice Department regarding material seized from his home.

Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton and other conservatives called her assertions “astonishingly false,” a “verifiable lie,” and gaslighting with more 2016 “stolen-election” allegations.

The barrage of posts on Twitter came after Clinton took to the social media website to suggest she had no classified material on the non-government computer server that was the subject of an FBI investigation in 2016.

Hillary Clinton (Getty Images)

“I can’t believe we’re still talking about this, but my emails,” Clinton tweeted Tuesday. “As Trump’s problems continue to mount, the right is trying to make this about me again. There’s even a ‘Clinton Standard.’ The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified.”

Clinton added claims of exoneration by fired FBI Director James Comey and even State Department members held over in the Trump administration.

“Comey admitted he was wrong after he claimed I had classified emails,” Clinton added via Twitter. “Trump’s own State Department, under two different secretaries, found I had no classified emails.

“That’s right: ZERO,” she repeated.

The Washington Times’ Tim Young shot back, “Don’t wait up for this complete lie to be fact checked.”

Fitton, however, obliged.

“Fact check: Astonishingly false,” he tweeted.

The Justice Department inspector general report in June 2018, reviewing the FBI’s 2016 presidential election actions, provided clarity for the Clinton claim, saying the emails were not marked classified, but contained classified material and should have been marked as such. Also, there were classified emails missing and not turned over by Clinton’s lawyers.

The DOJ IG report explained:

“’81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton’s personal server.’ In other words, the USIC agencies determined that these 81 email chains, although not marked classified, contained information classified at the time the emails were sent and should have been so marked. Twelve of the 81 classified email chains were not among the 30,490 that Clinton’s lawyers had produced to the State Department, and these were all classified at the Secret or Confidential levels.”

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