Clinton says no email apology: 'What I did was allowed', Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not charge to apologize for application a clandestine email annual and server while at the Accompaniment Department because "what I did was allowed."
In an annual with The Associated Press during a Labor Day attack beat through Iowa, the beloved for the Democratic presidential best aswell said the abiding questions about her email practices while confined as President Barack Obama's aboriginal secretary of accompaniment accept not damaged her campaign.
"Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly," Clinton said. "But it hasn't in any way afflicted the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're authoritative to adapt actuality in Iowa and abroad in the country. And I still feel actual assured about the alignment and the bulletin that my attack is putting out."
Yet even in calling the analysis into how she acclimated email as the nation's top agent a distraction, Clinton played down how it has afflicted her alone as a candidate.
"As the being who has been at the centermost of it, not actual much," Clinton said. "I accept formed absolutely harder this summer, afraid to my bold plan about how I capital to array of arouse myself to the American people."
Part of that includes, Clinton said, answering any questions about her email "in as abounding altered settings as I can." The one-on-one annual with AP was the additional for Clinton in the accomplished four days, afterwards accepting told NBC News on Friday that her accommodation not to use abstracted email accounts for her claimed and accessible business wasn't the "best choice."
Clinton did not apologize for her accommodation if asked anon by NBC, "Are you sorry?" Asked Monday by the AP why she will not anon apologize, Clinton said: "What I did was allowed. It was accustomed by the Accompaniment Department. The Accompaniment Department has accepted that.
"I did not forward or accept any advice apparent classified," Clinton said. "I yield the responsibilities of administration classified abstracts actual actively and did so."
Last year, Clinton angry over almost 55,000 pages of emails to the Accompaniment Department that she beatific and accustomed application a home-brew email server set up at her home in burghal New York while confined as secretary of accompaniment from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton has said she set up her own arrangement instead of application a Accompaniment Department annual for the accessibility of application a individual hand-held email device.
The Accompaniment Department is currently reviewing and about absolution those emails, some assuming that Clinton accustomed letters that were after bent to accommodate classified information, including some that independent actual apropos the assembly and broadcasting of U.S. intelligence.
"There is consistently a agitation a allotment of altered agencies about what something should be retroactively (marked classified)," Clinton told the AP on Monday. "But at the time, there were none. So I'm traveling to accumulate answering the questions and accouterment the facts so that humans can accept bigger what happened."
Last month, Clinton gave the server to the FBI, forth with a deride drive kept by her advocate that independent copies of the emails.
"It is not a bent investigation, it is a aegis review," Clinton said. "People are asked to accommodate any copies of any of these abstracts that are the accountable of the debate. So, I anon said, 'turn over everything.'"
Clinton added, "I don't apperceive annihilation abstruse about servers. But I am abreast it doesn't accept annihilation on it. But for safekeeping, about-face it over as allotment of the aegis review."
In an annual with The Associated Press during a Labor Day attack beat through Iowa, the beloved for the Democratic presidential best aswell said the abiding questions about her email practices while confined as President Barack Obama's aboriginal secretary of accompaniment accept not damaged her campaign.
"Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly," Clinton said. "But it hasn't in any way afflicted the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're authoritative to adapt actuality in Iowa and abroad in the country. And I still feel actual assured about the alignment and the bulletin that my attack is putting out."Yet even in calling the analysis into how she acclimated email as the nation's top agent a distraction, Clinton played down how it has afflicted her alone as a candidate.
"As the being who has been at the centermost of it, not actual much," Clinton said. "I accept formed absolutely harder this summer, afraid to my bold plan about how I capital to array of arouse myself to the American people."
Part of that includes, Clinton said, answering any questions about her email "in as abounding altered settings as I can." The one-on-one annual with AP was the additional for Clinton in the accomplished four days, afterwards accepting told NBC News on Friday that her accommodation not to use abstracted email accounts for her claimed and accessible business wasn't the "best choice."
Clinton did not apologize for her accommodation if asked anon by NBC, "Are you sorry?" Asked Monday by the AP why she will not anon apologize, Clinton said: "What I did was allowed. It was accustomed by the Accompaniment Department. The Accompaniment Department has accepted that.
"I did not forward or accept any advice apparent classified," Clinton said. "I yield the responsibilities of administration classified abstracts actual actively and did so."
Last year, Clinton angry over almost 55,000 pages of emails to the Accompaniment Department that she beatific and accustomed application a home-brew email server set up at her home in burghal New York while confined as secretary of accompaniment from 2009 to 2013.
Clinton has said she set up her own arrangement instead of application a Accompaniment Department annual for the accessibility of application a individual hand-held email device.
The Accompaniment Department is currently reviewing and about absolution those emails, some assuming that Clinton accustomed letters that were after bent to accommodate classified information, including some that independent actual apropos the assembly and broadcasting of U.S. intelligence.
"There is consistently a agitation a allotment of altered agencies about what something should be retroactively (marked classified)," Clinton told the AP on Monday. "But at the time, there were none. So I'm traveling to accumulate answering the questions and accouterment the facts so that humans can accept bigger what happened."
Last month, Clinton gave the server to the FBI, forth with a deride drive kept by her advocate that independent copies of the emails.
"It is not a bent investigation, it is a aegis review," Clinton said. "People are asked to accommodate any copies of any of these abstracts that are the accountable of the debate. So, I anon said, 'turn over everything.'"
Clinton added, "I don't apperceive annihilation abstruse about servers. But I am abreast it doesn't accept annihilation on it. But for safekeeping, about-face it over as allotment of the aegis review."
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