With all the recent news surrounding Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email server scandal, you’ve probably lost of track of how many excuses, euphemisms, myths, and lies have been spun by her and her allies — but don’t worry, we are here to help!

MYTH #1
Hillary Clinton claimed she set up her private server out of a matter of convenience so she could use just one mobile device. She wanted to have all of her communications streamlined, so she decided to forego her official State Department account in order to use her own personal system.

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TRUTH: According to The Associated Press, Clinton frequently emailed her staff and aides from an iPad as well as her BlackBerry during her tenure as secretary of state — putting to bed the myth that she only used one device.

MYTH #2
The emails Clinton sent to her staff were sent to their official State Department accounts and therefore were archived.

TRUTH: The inspector general’s office found that many State Department employees were not preserving emails, even though they are required to do so by the federal government. What’s more, some of Clinton’s closest aides at the State Department were using their own personal emails to conduct official business.

MYTH #3
Clinton’s home-brew private email server was permitted under State Department policy at the time it was set up.

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TRUTH: The inspector general’s report came to the conclusion that Clinton violated the agency’s email rules when she decided to use her own private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Additionally, the report said that Clinton had not sought permission to use a private email server and that if she had asked, it “would not have approved her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct department business.”

MYTH #4
Clinton’s email practices were consistent with those of other past secretaries and senior officials at the State Department.

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TRUTH: The audit noted that former Secretary of State Colin Powell occasionally used a personal email account, but that the scale and scope of Clinton’s use was much different. Powell did not host his personal email on a private server located in his home — Clinton did. Additionally, in 2009, while Clinton was secretary of state, the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations on handling electronic records was updated. “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic email messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.”

MYTH #5:
“I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email,” Clinton originally said in March 2015. “There isn’t classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements, and did not send classified material … the server will remain private.”

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“I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified,” Clinton said again in July 2015.

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TRUTH: Among the 55,000 printed pages of emails Clinton provided to the State Department for public release, the total number of classified emails discovered currently totals 2,080. Overall 22 emails have been deemed “top secret” and are being withheld from the public.

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MYTH #6:
Clinton called the FBI investigation into her private email server a “security review.”

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TRUTH: FBI Director James Comey sees the situation very differently from Clinton. “It’s in our name,” Comey said. “I’m not familiar with the term ‘security inquiry.’ We’re conducting an investigation. That’s what we do.”

MYTH #7:
In March Clinton praised herself as transparent. “I’ve been more transparent than anybody I can think of in public life,” Clinton said to CBS News.

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TRUTH: We’ll let you be the judge of that.

As the FBI investigation begins to wrap up, there have been no initial reports over whether Clinton will be indicted for any criminal wrongdoing, but the entire affair has been a nonstop drip of negativity for Clinton and her campaign. Regardless of whether Clinton is ultimately indicted, the ethical questions the scandal has raised and Clinton’s record of deceit in handling the scandal will remain.