It has been a trying week for FBI director and noted folksy exclamation user James Comey, whose testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee explaining his election-ruining Hilly Clinton emails letter came off as, to put it mildly, bafflingly disingenuous. Now, it appears that there is yet another problem with his sworn testimony—it wasn't, to use a technical legal term, "accurate." Lordy!

In the hearing, Comey asserted that the reason the FBI reopened its investigation into the Clinton email debacle was that, during their separate sex crimes investigation of Anthony Weiner, the Bureau happened upon emails on Weiner's laptop that were sent from Clinton to her deputy, Huma Abedin, which Abedin then forwarded to her husband, Weiner, so that Abedin could print them out for Clinton. Comey characterized this as a "regular practice" that resulted in the discovery of "hundreds and thousands" of Clinton's emails on Weiner's laptop.

This sounds like it would be bad, if it were actually what happened. ProPublica, which is apparently working on a story on the FBI's Clinton investigation, reports as follows.

FBI officials have privately acknowledged that Comey misstated what Abedin did and what the FBI investigators found. On Monday, the FBI was said to be preparing to correct the record by sending a letter to Congress later this week. But that plan now appears on hold, with the Bureau undecided about what to do.

According to two sources familiar with the matter—including one in law enforcement—Abedin forwarded only a handful of Clinton emails to her husband for printing—not the "hundreds and thousands" cited by Comey. It does not appear Abedin made "a regular practice" of doing so. Other officials said it was likely that most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry.

So, Comey gravely represented during the hearing that Abedin was casually forwarding her boss' emails—thousands of them!—to an unsecured account for ease of printing. But in fact, Abedin did this only a couple of times, and most of the Clinton emails that the Bureau discovered had inadvertently made their way to Weiner's laptop via the operation of the process that Abedin used to back up her smartphone? Call me crazy, but these seem like very important details. How does the Bureau explain the discrepancy between testimony and reality?