Hillary Clinton again tries to explain her comments about FBI email probe
WASHINGTON _ Here's a prediction: Hillary Clinton's latest four-and-a-half minute answer to questions about whether she mishandled classified email is not going to satisfy her critics.
Clinton was asked Friday to explain whether she had misrepresented the findings of FBI Director James Comey when she seemed to say in a Fox News interview last week that he had concluded that her statements about her use of a private email server while secretary of State were "truthful."
To the extent she acknowledged any misstatement Friday, Clinton said she may not have been as clear as she could have been and possibly "short-circuited" her response to Fox's Chris Wallace. She said she meant only to say that Comey had stated that her answers during an FBI interview were truthful.
She went on to say that what she told the FBI was consistent with her past public statements on the matter. But many listeners were left with the impression that Clinton was claiming that Comey had also concluded that her statements to the FBI were consistent with her public statements.
_ Tribune Washington Bureau
