Hillary Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post – the worst score possible for truthfulness – after claiming on Sunday that the FBI defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.

FBI director James Comey testified in a July 7 congressional hearing that multiple statements the Democratic presidential nominee made to the public were untrue.

But in a rare Fox News Channel interview on Sunday, Clinton claimed that Comey 'said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people.'

The Post's fact-checker pored over the record and found 'Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative' about why she sent and received classified documents on a private email server in her house.

This, the paper concluded, 'allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation.'

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PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO: The Washington Post called Hillary Clinton a liar on Sunday after she claimed that the FBI director said she had been honest about her classified email scandal

'THAT'S NOT TRUE': FBI Director James Comey testified in Congress last month that some of what Clinton told the public and the press about her unprotected private email setup was false

Clinton's claim that the FBI found her 'truthful' is also undermined by the fact that she was never placed under oath during hours of interviews with federal investigators.

Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, told MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Monday that Clinton remained apologetic about using a private system for her only email address while she was secretary of state, but insisted she was blind to the fact that thousands of messages she sent and received contained state secrets.

'She said this was a mistake multiple times. She's apologized for it,' Mook said.

'What Director Comey said was that he believes there was no basis for her to believe that the emails in question, that you're referring to, that she had any reason to believe they were classified at the time she got them.'

Host Joe Scarborough shot back that Comey concluded that '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 unsecured system was the wrong place to have sensitive conversations.

The Post highlighted an exchange during the July 7 hearing between Comey and South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy that showed the FBI director disagreeing with what Clinton has said in public interviews.

PASS THE BUCK: During a Sunday TV interview, Clinton blamed career officials at the State Department for her classified email scandal

'Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, either sent or received. Was that true?' Gowdy asked?

'That’s not true,' Comey replied.

'Secretary Clinton said, "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material." Was that true?' Gowdy continued?

'There was classified material emailed,' said Comey.

Comey ultimately decided not to recommend criminal charges to the Justice Department, despite calling her actions 'extremely reckless' and negligent.

Some Republicans cried that the fix was in, especially when it emerged that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had had a private meeting with Bill Clinton days earlier on an airport tarmac in Arizona.

WISHFUL SPIN: Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook insisted the FBI had concluded his boss had no reason to think the sensitive messages she was sending and receiving contained classified information

Clinton on Sunday ultimately blamed career officials at the State Department for her classified email scandal, suggesting they should have known better than to send her documents that could be considered classified.

'I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked,' Clinton said on 'Fox News Sunday.'

'And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, well, among those 300 people, they made the wrong call.

'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's decision to use only an unclassified email account, however, left her underlings with no other option when they wanted to communicate with her over long distances.

She originally claimed in a 2015 press conference that no classified materials at all were present on her server.