Clinton Says No Email Apology: 'What I did was allowed'

The Associated Press ^ | Monday, September 7, 2015 | Catherine Lucey

[kristinn]

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because "what I did was allowed."

In an interview with The Associated Press during a Labor Day campaign swing through Iowa, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also said the lingering questions about her email practices while serving as President Barack Obama's first secretary of state have not damaged her campaign.

"Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly," Clinton said. "But it hasn't in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're making to organize here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country. And I still feel very confident about the organization and the message that my campaign is putting out."

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Clinton did not apologize for her decision when asked directly by NBC, "Are you sorry?" Asked Monday by the AP why she won't directly apologize, Clinton said: "What I did was allowed. It was allowed by the State Department. The State Department has confirmed that.

"I did not send or receive any information marked classified," Clinton said. "I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so."

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"It is not a criminal investigation, it is a security review," Clinton said. "People are asked to provide any copies of any of these materials that are the subject of the debate. So, I immediately said, 'turn over everything.'"

Clinton added, "I don't know anything technical about servers. But I am informed it doesn't have anything on it. But for safekeeping, turn it over as part of the security review."

[kristinn]

More at the source link.

[WKUHilltopper]

Time for jail!

[Red in Blue PA]

Time for the Gallows.

[Lurkinanloomin]

No it wasn’t. She was required to use a .gov e-mail.

She is not nearly as good a liar as Bill.

[blackdog]

Allowed by who? The skim milk tea agency, or the Clinton Foundation Bagmen Brigades?

What a horrid pathetic woman!

[gaijin]

I set up pop-up CIA·s and overthrow countries prollyyy...twice a month, no biggie.

Oh!

I also sometimes get Ambassadors killed, and stuff...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[unixfox]

Clinton added, "I don't know anything technical about servers. But I am informed it doesn't have anything on it.

Because you ordered it to be wiped?

[Greysard]

Nobody expects her to confess to such a crime. It will be denials all the way down.

[blackdog]

You need to be likeable in order to serve us up them kinda whoppers lady!

[I want the USA back]

A skilled liar, supported by the media.

[ClearCase_guy]

I had a friend in college -- not a bright guy, and he was very stoned most of the time. BUT he was confident that he had figured out one great truth:

You see, he said, they cannot put you in jail for something unless you confess. As long as you don't confess, you're a free man. I'll never go to jail, he said, because I would never confess.

Last I heard, he was in jail.

But anyway, back to Hillary -- I find is amusing that she uses as her shield: "my actions were allowed" even though everyone on the planet knows very well that they were not at all allowed.

[Fungi]

Liar, and a poor one. Your “husband” B.J. Bill Clinton did not teach you well.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[JennysCool]

"It was allowed by the State Department."

So in Clintonese, this is, "I gave me permission to do it."

[a fool in paradise]

The NAZI excuse.

[BenLurkin]

“No controlling legal authority.”

[a fool in paradise]

Was Richard Nixon ever asked about how to work the recording machines that JFK had installed in the White House?

[Paladin2]

I do what I can get away with. Do you know WHO I am?

[Kickass Conservative]

Never, ever admit you are doing anything wrong, even with your Pants wrapped around your Ankles.