Why Hillary Clinton Is Telling the Truth about Her Emails

Here's the situation: Hillary has said repeatedly that she didn't send or receive any classified emails via her private server when she was Secretary of State.  FBI Director Comey has said she did.   He also said she didn't lie to the FBI about this.

All of these statements are true.

Here's why:

1. A hundred out of the 30+ thousand emails Hillary sent on her private server were marked "classified" after she had sent them.  Therefore, Hillary could not have knowingly sent out or received such retroactively classified emails.  Comey may have been right to chastise her for using a private server, but that's a different issue (and, as been noted by everyone except Republicans, Hillary's predecessor Colin Powell sent private emails, as did Condoleezza Rice's staff.

2. Three of the emails on Hillary's private server were indeed marked classified - but the markings on two were incorrect.  So, in fact, these cannot be counted as classified emails that Hillary had on her private server.

3.  The marking on the third was correct - on 1 out of more than 30,000 emails - but it was not listed at the top. So although Hillary did have that one classified email on her private server, it's reasonable to conclude that she did not know it was classified.

And that's it.  No one is lying - neither Hillary Clinton nor the FBI Director. For some reason, the media today - including, unsurprisingly now, some of the geniuses at MSNBC, specifically Howard Fineman and Chris Cillizza - were saying that Hillary was not clear, was too defensive today, when she explained what happened.  But, in fact, it's not the least bit unclear, and I'm finding the media opacity on this issue no help at all, to the point of not doing their jobs.

Obama Wins - My Thoughts on a Great Evening

Some of my tweets tonight - one of the great nights in American history!

Yes!! MSNBC now calls PA for Obama!! Now all Obama needs is Ohio+Fla - or Ohio+WI+IA - & he's in!! (I said hour ago that PA would be Ob) ... 

Stephanie Cutter's face after PA call for Obama gives me confidence that Obama is winning this election! ... 

And WI called for Obama! Just one or two more swing states - Ohio with either Fl or Iowa - and Obama is in!! ...

Sherrod Brown wins in Ohio!! Human rationality triumphs over big money! Thomas Jefferson would have been proud! ... 

And the robot is moving closer to the rust pile, where he belongs. ... 

Eliz Warren takes back MA for the Dems! Good riddance Scott Brown! ... 

Another Dem gain in Senate: Donnelly beat Mourdock in Indiana - it was God's will ... McCaskill beats the anti-woman miscreant in Missouri! ... 

+Howard Fineman reports that Romney high-command in Boston in radio silence, not talking to anyone ... their end is nigh ... 

With MN going to Obama, David Axelrod's moustache is safe ... I can relate ...

Obama wins Iowa ...he made a moving speech there last night ...the nation is about one state away now from moving forward for 4 more years!

And Obama just won Ohio!! At 11:12pm Eastern time, Obama is re-elected President!!

God bless the American midwest ... they didn't fall for Republican lies! Yes!!

The Republicans got what they deserved ... Romney was one of the worst candidates in American history.

Health care for everyone is safe! The reactionary tide has been turned back!

Trump says the election was a travesty - he must've been looking in the mirror

Lame lack of class: Romney the robot refuses to concede

Stephen Schmidt, an honorable Republican, says the GOP needs to repudiate the anti-women & other positions that lost them this election

Tonight's also a great night for Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight and his statistical analyses. Congrats Nate!

MSNBC reporting that Romney will give his concession speech in 5 mins ... he phoned Obama to concede .. I'm glad he's doing the right thing.

Inspiring speech by Obama - he'll fix waiting in line for hrs to vote- his re-election shows his election 4 years ago was more than a blip

Obama Appeals to the Good Sense of Americans in 21st Democratic Debate Tonight

David Gergen on CNN thought both candidates were "pandering," Howard Fineman on MSNBC thought the debate was stale, and Patrick Buchanan, also on MSNBC, thought Barack Obama did not have a very good night ... but I thought it was the ABC-TV questioners who didn't have a very good night, and the candidates made this 21st Democratic debate the best so far. Hillary Clinton was her customarily clear debating self. But Barack Obama made some important progress in his continuing campaign to practice a new kind of politics in this election - one which respects the intelligence and rationality of the American.

Obama was hit with bevy of volleys about not wearing a flag pin, his friendship with Weatherman radical William Ayers, his relationship with Rev. Wright, etc.

And Obama pointed out that this is not what the election is about - and not what Americans are interested in hearing. These discussions do nothing to fix what is wrong with America.

There were some important questions mixed in with this trivia - about taxes, Iraq, soaring gas prices, and the like. Clinton and Obama both answered them well.

But as long as the media insist on harping on why a candidate does not wear a flag pin, the American people will have to work that much harder to get at the issues that count. (Hillary was hit by this harping too, when she was asked about her misreporting of her Bosnia experience.)

Obama has been staking his whole campaign on the Jeffersonian assumption that people are up to this task - on the view of John Milton, who thought that when truth and falsity, triviality and profundity, fight it out on in the arena of public opinion, truth and profundity will win.

It hasn't in the last two general elections, and the media aren't making it easy now, but I'm betting that even if truth doesn't prevail in the Pennsylvania primary next week, it will still make a good showing. And, whatever happens in Pennsylvania, it will prevail in August and, most importantly, in November.