Nope, that wasn't 'classified' information in Hunter Biden's email To our readers: The Fact Checker newsletter launched more than six years ago, and thanks to your support, it has become one of most popular newsletters at The Washington Post. We are changing the format a bit, in part to encourage readers to read the full fact checks, nuances and all. We will also dig into our pile of 4,000 fact checks for a weekly curated list on a common theme. This week, we examined yet another claim about Hunter Biden, the president's son, that had circulated on right-wing media and then out of the mouths of politicians — that a 2014 email found on his abandoned laptop appeared to contain classified information, or at the least was the product of State Department briefings. The implication is that this is new evidence that President Biden is cavalier about handling classified information. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), for instance, said: "This email reads as if it was cut-and-pasted from an official government briefing. An official government briefing that one would infer his father had received. And it reads as if it could easily have come from a classified briefing." We decided to explore whether the information in the email could have been derived from contemporary news reports at the time. Click below to learn more. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. FBI data on active shooters has problems Most mass shootings are stopped by law enforcement — or the shooter commits suicide. But every so often a citizen comes to the rescue. Sometimes they may have their own firearm. On other occasions, the gunman is disarmed by a heroic citizen who does not have a weapon, as was the case with Brandon Tsay, who wrestled a semiautomatic pistol away from the shooter who had just killed 11 people in a California ballroom. We decided to investigate what is more common — a "good guy" without a gun or a "good guy" with a gun. There's an FBI database on active shooters that is widely cited, but we discovered that the FBI reports have numerous errors and, by the FBI's own admission, are not necessarily complete or even consistent in how certain criteria are applied. Click the link to learn what we discovered. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other fact checks on Hunter Biden. | 
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