Hillary's email half truth: Media shows true colors for not calling out falsehood

Benjamin Franklin once said that a "half truth is often a great lie." It turns out that the same can be said about "technical" truths. 

Franklin’s warning came to mind recently after Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post looked at the claim of Hillary Clinton on Twitter this week that "the fact is that I had zero emails that were classified." The Post declared Clinton "technically correct" in the claim despite the fact that it was actually false. Indeed, the Post appears to recognize that fact at the very end of its analysis. 

A "technical" truth is wonderfully Clintonesque – captured in Bill's infamous defense during the Monica Lewinsky investigation that "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." The email scandal now depends on what the meaning of "were" was.  

Hillary Clinton is focusing on whether the emails were marked classified as opposed to whether they contained classified information. The tortured logic is transparently and knowingly misleading, but it has been pushed by various columnists and analysts.