Reuters: Clinton apologizes for using private email as U.S. secretary of state
U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the first time apologized on Tuesday for using a private email server at her New York home for her official communications as secretary of state.
"That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility," Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2016 presidential election, said in an interview with ABC News, while still insisting that she violated no rules.
"What I had done was allowed, it was above board," she said. "But in retrospect, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails."
In two earlier interviews in the past week, Clinton had declined to apologize for the controversial email arrangement while working as the nation's top diplomat, saying it was allowed by the State Department.
Update: Hillary Clinton apologizes for e-mail system: ‘I take responsibility’ -- Washington Post
WNU Editor: This is not how you run a Presidential campaign .... and this story is not going to end with this "apology". There are serious legal issues involved including growing evidence that classified information was traded, and while I doubt that the U.S. Justice Department will move to indict her until an investigation is completed (whenever that happens), this is a cloud that is going to be over her head for a long time.
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