Hillary Clinton says she used private email as 'a matter of convenience'
In a press conference, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has explained her decision to route all emails through a personal account housed on a private server, and reiterated a promise to publicly release any work-related messages. “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 one device for my work and personal email instead of two,” she said after a speech at the United Nations. “At the time, this didn’t seem like an issue.”
Clinton says that she turned over roughly half the 60,000 emails on her server to the State Department as part of a record-keeping effort two months ago. The other…
Source:: The Verge
