'Four Pinocchios' for Hillary Clinton's Latest Email Claim

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's latest defense of her email scandal is getting a big thumbs down from the mainstream news media.

A Washington Post fact-check has given Clinton "Four Pinocchios," it's most severe negative rating, for claiming that FBI Director James Comey had said she was honest about her email statements.

"Director Comey said that my answers were truthful," Clinton said on "Fox News Sunday."

But the Post says Clinton's statement is false.

"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," the Post said.

The Post's fact-checker noted that Clinton still "relies on excessively technical and legalistic answers to explain her actions."

In her interview on Fox, Clinton once again defended her use of a private email server for official government business.

She said she made a "mistake," and she blamed her colleagues at the State Department.

"I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked. And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, 'Well, … among those 300 people, they made the wrong call,'" Clinton said. "At the time, there was no reason, in my view, to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country."

Clinton has claimed that she did not send any emails that included information that was classified, at the time it was sent.

But Comey told Congress classified material was definitely sent through Clinton's server.

"There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," Comey testified last month.

"Any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation," Comey had said.

"Even if information is not marked 'classified' in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it," he added.