After days of scandal swirling around her, Hillary Clinton finally decided that it was in her best interest to address the scandal surrounding her email head-on today, March 10. She has conceded that it would have been in her best interest to only use her governmental email account while serving as U.S. secretary of state, but also insists that she did nothing to compromise security or her position by using a different server. It has been confirmed that she has turned more than 55,000 pages of documents for scrutiny to see exactly which details were shared over an unsecured server. She said she used the private email for "convenience," not deception.
According to a report by the Associated Press, "The former secretary of state described her decision to rely exclusively on her private account as a matter of convenience and a way to avoid carrying two devices. She said she had not used her personal email to discuss any classified information. Clinton said her server would remain private. She said she had exchanged 60,000 emails, half of which were personal and were discarded."
"I had no reason to save them," Clinton said of the personal emails.
She described the destroyed communications as ones related to her daughter's wedding, her mother's funeral, her yoga routine and other matters.
"Everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department," Clinton said.
Clinton stands firm in deleting the emails that she has, saying they were personal, family-type things. She also pointed out that even when using a different server, anything work-oriented went to government accounts, so there is a lasting digital print of them anyway.
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