From link:
Hillary Clinton‘s political and media critics jumped all over
a key portion of FBI Director
James Comey‘s lengthy statement on the investigation into email practices at the State Department in which Comey said that a
“very small number” of emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information” as evidence that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied when she said she hadn’t sent or received material that was marked classified.
At a Congressional hearing Thursday morning, however, Comey admitted that
the three emails to which he was referring were not, in fact, properly marked as classified, and that even a person with
reasonable expertise in identifying classified material could make the “reasonable inference” that these emails were not classified:
Rep. Matt Cartwright: were these properly documented, were they properly marked according to the manual with the little “cs”?
FBI Director James Comey: no…There were three e-mails. Yhe “c” was in the body, in the text but there was no header on the e-mail or the text.
Rep. Matt Cartwright: So if Secretary Clinton really were an expert at what’s classified and what’s not classified, and were following the manual, the absence of a header would tell her immediately that those three documents were not classified. Am I correct in that?
FBI Director James Comey: That would be a reasonable inference.