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Bill and Hillary Clinton / AP

Bill and Hillary Clinton / AP

BY: David Rutz     
August 17, 2016 10:54 am

The Washington Post's fact checker blog ripped Bill Clinton on Wednesday for his "pathetic and misleading attempt to normalize Hillary Clinton's use of her personal email account," giving the former president "Three Pinocchios" for his claim about emails marked classified on his wife's private server.

Bill Clinton raised eyebrows on Friday when he told a group of journalists that the FBI's claims about classified material on Hillary Clinton's server were the "biggest load of bull" he had ever heard.

"The FBI director said, when he testified to Congress, he had to amend the previous day's statement, that she had never received any emails marked classified. They saw two little notes with a 'C' on it. This is the biggest load of bull I ever heard. They were about telephone calls that she needed to make. And the State Department put a little 'C' on it to discourage people from discussing it in public, in the event that the secretary of state, whoever it is, doesn't make the phone call. Does that sound threatening to the national security to you?"

Washington Post reporter Michelle Ye Hee Lee ran through a history of Hillary Clinton's misleading email statements, and she also pointed out that Bill Clinton left out the 110 emails that FBI Director James Comey said were classified at the time they were on Clinton's server, not retroactively classified.

The whole dispute over the little "c" versus big "C," portion markings versus header, and so on, is the political equivalent of three-card monte.