FBI not buying Hillary Clinton's claim her emails are undergoing a routine 'security inquiry'

Brett T. | 9:39 PM on May 11, 2016

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin made clear in a State Department email what everyone already suspected: her boss is “often confused.” Either that, or she’s — dare we suggest — lying when she maintains that the FBI investigation into her private email server is actually just a routine “security inquiry.”

A security inquiry? FBI Director James Comey today told reporters that he “don’t know what that means.”

FBI Director questions Clinton's description of email investigation as "security inquiry" https://t.co/W2ktDgfZrC pic.twitter.com/BxVJ88JgnK

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 12, 2016

He didn't "question" it – he said there's no such thing as a "security inquiry."

— Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) May 12, 2016

In a Labor Day interview in Iowa with the Associated Press, Clinton called the investigation into her emails and private email server “a distraction” and insisted that what she’s involved in “is not a criminal investigation, it is a security review.”

Hillary: Server thing is just a little security review FBI: What the hell is a security review? We do investigations https://t.co/dCKa8Ifj8U

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 11, 2016

You’d think the FBI would know the difference between the two since it’s performing the investigation. Still, Comey insists he’s not familiar with the term “security review” or what it means.