Hillary Clinton has conceded making a mistake in failing to use a US government e-mail account when she was Secretary of State.
Addressing for the first time questions about why she chose not to use a State Department e-mail address, she said she had "opted for convenience".
She insisted that she'd broken no rules, and had handed over to the State Department all the "work-related e-mail" contained on private servers in her New York home.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Mrs Clinton said with hindsight she regretted having chosen to use only her personal e-mail as a “matter of convenience”.
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Mrs. Clinton sidestepped questions about whether she had deleted any work-related e-mail.
But she told reporters she had no classified material on her servers, and went “above-and-beyond” the legal requirements to preserve copies of government correspondence.
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Mrs. Clinton said she welcomed an announcement by the State Department that 55 thousand pages of e-mail will eventually be made public on-line.
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Mrs. Clinton told reporters that she had always taken steps to ensure that her e-mail was being preserved, as required by law.
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