The Washington Post gave Clinton four Pinocchios for that statement, its worst ranking for truthfulness in its Fact Checker, saying "Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative about the unusual setup of a private email server. This allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation."
"While Comey did say [to Congress] there was no evidence she lied to the FBI, that is not the same as saying she told the truth to the American public — which was the point of Wallace's question," the Post noted.
The newspaper also ripped Clinton apart for claiming that the information was not classified at the time.
"As for retroactive classification of emails, Comey did say many emails were retroactively classified. But he also said that some emails were classified at the time — and Clinton and her aides should have been aware of that."
There were plenty of other public figures who also took Clinton to task for the statements.
One such example was Sen. Ben Sasse, who posted on his Twitter account a repudiation of Clinton and gave a link to a YouTube posting that shows his address to the Senate in which he posted Clinton's statements alongside those of Comey's to illustrate that she lied about many features of the scandal.
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