Clinton acknowledges misspeaking about FBI director’s testimony

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

In an effort to clarify her most recent statements about her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton on Friday only further muddled a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy from the start.

Clinton acknowledged that she had misspoken in two recent media interviews when she claimed that FBI Director James Comey had characterized as "truthful" all of her public statements about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

She explained that Comey was referring only to her interviews with the FBI -- but she also insisted that all of her other public statements on the matter have been consistent with those interviews.

“I may have short-circuited and I will try to clarify,” Clinton told reporters at a convention of black and Hispanic journalists in Washington on Friday.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/05/clinton-acknowledges-misspeaking-about-fbi-directors-testimony/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

[lapucelle]

1. Nope, not good enough

Jake Tapper actually said that "she continues to lie".

[Faux pas]

12. Agree

[DURHAM D]

2. Steve K and Kriten Welker says she is not helping herself.

They are both morons.

[bigdarryl]

3. They still beating that dead horse

And yet you have Trumps wife possibly may have broken the law a few years ago saying she was a US citizen when she was taking off all her cloths

[7962]

4. "Short circuited"? What the hell does that even MEAN? nt

[emulatorloo]

5. It means the same thing as "Brain Fart." Hope that helps.

[7962]

8. I just pictured her using that term. It was hilarious. Wish she had!

[yallerdawg]

6. It means she said the same thing in public for the last year...

that she said to the FBI.

The FBI director said she didn't lie to the FBI.

Ergo, she didn't lie to the public.

The "short circuit."

[marshall]

14. It's a term associated with brain injury and seizures

Probably not the best metaphor to use in this instance--brain fart means the same thing but is more colloquial and therefore less likely to have armchair would-be physicians come up with a diagnosis.

[Marthe48]

16. Maybe she meant short hand

When you know what you want to say, but give a short version. When I do it, I assume the other person knows everything I'm referencing. She should just start saying 'asked and answered' just like you would with a toddler and move on.

[Laser102]

7. She needs to say she has said everything she can possibly say and she's not talking about it anymore

Enough! No matter what she says it will never be good enough for these assholes, so why bother?

[question everything]

9. I like this (nt)

[crosinski]

15. Agree!

They're desperate for something to attack her with. It can't be All-Trump-All-The-Time in NewsLand. It has to be about the horserace. She needs to cut them off with something short and memorable, and then move on with the interview. They're fishing, and I hope she doesn't take the hook anymore.

[JesterCS]

10. Imagine that

And those of us on other side of fence got ridiculed for saying so


By other side I meant Bernie supporters

[Lulu KC]

11. No, she's not perfect

But I don't have to marry her. I'll take it.

[Democat]

13. She had plenty of time to prepare for the question, why no good answer?

She needs to be much better prepared for the debates and she needs to stay on the plan. Let Trump say wild unplanned things while she is calm and strategic.