Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Timothy Pickering...
’s campaign.
Coming off a successful Democratic convention, combined with some of the most pronounced Republican infighting to date, Clinton took a commanding lead over GOP rival Donald Trump, both in national and many swing state polls.
But instead of capitalizing on the momentum, she tripped up again on her political Achilles’ heel -- emails -- before an audience she has kept at arm’s length over the last 16 months -- journalists.
Speaking at a gathering of black and Latino news hounds and editors in Washington, Clinton struggled to reconcile her previous public statements about the handling of sensitive information over a private email server with the critical assessment offered by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Over the course of nearly four and a half minutes, Clinton first feinted toward acknowledging a recent misstatement, saying she offered a "short-circuited" response in a Fox News interview last weekend by suggesting FBI Director James B. Comey had concluded that her public statements about her use of a private email server while secretary of State were truthful. Comey had only said there was no evidence that she had lied to the FBI during its investigation into the matter.
Clinton attributed the confusion to miscommunication, explaining that she had intended to say that her statements in public were no different than those she had made to the FBI.
"What we have here is pretty much what I have been saying throughout this whole year. And that is, that I never sent or received anything that was marked classified," she said again Friday.
But critics say that statement does not square with