“I really did not perhaps appreciate the need to do that”, she said yesterday. “But it hasn’t in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we’re making to organise here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country“. I am confident by the end of this campaign, people will know they can trust me, and that I will be on their side and I will fight for them and their families.
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The FBI is investigating whether the system, maintained on a privately owned computer server at Clinton’s New York home, jeopardized classified information. I look forward to seeing Secretary Clinton talking with voters about her agenda for reforming our elections as a centerpiece of her campaign.
Apparently, the Central Intelligence Agency disagrees.
The statement was the furthest Mrs Clinton had gone in showing remorse for the arrangement, which mingled her work and personal communications and kept them outside the regular US State Department email system. A few days later, when a Fox News reporter asked if she had wiped her server of data, Clinton quipped, “What, like with a cloth or something?”
She told NBC interviewer Andrea Mitchell that she was sorry the issue was confusing for people, but insisted she had done nothing wrong. “I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so”. The State Department inspector general has suggested that some of the classified markings may have been removed and in other emails, Hillary passed on information she received from top secret emails.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Tuesday that the State Department is planning to hire 50 temporary workers to boost the office’s capacity.
The interview is to air Tuesday on ABC’s “World News Tonight”.
Prior to her interview with the AP, the closest that Clinton had come to saying sorry for her controversial email server was to apologize for causing confusion.
A poll by Monmouth University showed on Tuesday that Clinton’s support rate dropped 10 points in the past month. She also disputed that she ever traded information over email that was marked classified at the time.
What a journey. When it first emerged that she was using a private email server during her period as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was abrasive and dismissive. And I think he is a great vice president.
In the latest batch released by the State Department on September 1, officials said about 150 were remarked as classified.
She has handed over 30,000 of the emails to the State Department, but deleted another 30,000 which she said were “personal“.
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“It is not a criminal investigation, it is a security review”, Clinton said. That’s ahead of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who was picked by 20 percent.
