After speaking at the
U.N. Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event
today, Hillary held a presser on the sidelines. Beginning with a brief
statement, she addressed progress for women in mainstream society, the
GOP letter to Iran,
and (opening chords of
Beethoven's Fifth), her home-based email server. In a 20 minute session
that often seemed more like a
Jeopardy match in that she
had given the answer in her earlier statement and was met with the
question later, Hillary made some clarifying points.
1. The server was already there when she became secretary of state. It had been set up for her husband.
2. She turned over all government-related emails in compliance with an earlier request from the State Department.
3. She never emailed any classified material.
4. She neither kept nor turned over personal emails.
5.
Her choices at the beginning of her State Department tenure were: carry
two devices and use two separate email accounts or carry one device and
use one account. She chose the latter for the sake of convenience and
said looking back maybe she should have chosen the former.
Here is
AP's report on the session - many will abound, obviously - I think one is sufficient.
Associated Press
© Mike Segar
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a press
conference at the United Nations in New York March 10, 2015.
UNITED
NATIONS — Breaking her silence, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Tuesday
that she should have used a government email as secretary of state, but
insisted she was not violating any rules or seeking to hide her
communications.
"I fully complied by everyknow who is doing it.
rule I was governed by," Clinton said in her first public comments since
it was disclosed last week that she exclusively used a private email
and server for government business.
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As
for the media and right wing going bonkers over the security issues and
wondering whether this server was hacked, exactly how likely is that?
The State Department email system has been hacked since November and
they still do not know who is doing it. Hillary's server, on the other
hand, is purported to have been unknown to all including the White House
until the
New York Times ran their story. So ... was it
hacked? No one even knew it was there! Lost in the scuffle: the
probability that, until that
New York Times article, the Clintons, arguably, had one of the most secure servers in the country - in and outside of government.
Here are a few photos from the U.N. conference.
