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March 11, 2015

Clinton Says Private Email Account was "for Convenience," Not Secrecy 
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Former secretary of state and presumed Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton has spoken out for the first time on the controversy
surrounding her personal email account. Clinton used a private account
rather than a government one during her State Department tenure, and her
aides failed to preserve her emails on government servers in a possible
violation of federal law. On Monday, Clinton said using a personal
account was a matter of convenience, and that staffers have handed over
her government-related emails for public use.

Hillary Clinton: "When I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for
convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the
State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one
device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two. Looking
back, it would have been better if I'd simply used a second email
account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem
like an issue. … The server will remain private, and I think that the
State Department will be able, over time, to release all of the records
that were provided."

In fact, a few weeks ago at a business women's summit, Hillary Clinton
said that she does use two phones — a Black Berry and an i Phone.
The law changed in 2009 around using government email. Colin Powell
didn't use it. Hillary Clinton didn't, though her term went beyond 2009.
The first person to use the State Department government email as
secretary of state was John Kerry.

 

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