Hillary Clinton apologizes for use of private email account

Hilary Clinton

The Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, 67, has stated that she is ‘sorry’ for using a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, calling the decision, which has dogged her Democratic presidential bid, a "mistake".
Clinton was reported to have used her private email account and home server in lieu of the official government email system while she served as top diplomat from 2009 to 2013.
In an interview with ABC's "World News Tonight", Clinton admitted taking full responsibility for the incident, prior to which she had demurred from issuing a direct apology.
"I certainly wish that I had made a different choice," Clinton said last week, adding that she was "sorry" that the controversy was "confusing" for the public.
"As I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts, one for personal emails, one for work-related emails," Aljazeera reports.
The lingering email saga has weighed on Clinton's popularity, with a Gallup poll released on Friday showing her favourability rating at 41 percent, compared to 51 percent who view her unfavourably - the lowest level since 1992.
According to Aljazeera, the issue is unlikely to go away anytime soon, since the Department of State, to which Clinton turned over 30,000 official emails in late 2014, is releasing them to the public in batches. Many contain information that has been retroactively classified, raising questions about whether Clinton was inappropriately sending and receiving highly sensitive material, and whether sufficient security measures were in place to protect her server from hackers. Clinton "maintained that during her tenure at the state department she "did not send or receive any information that was marked classified at the time".
She also added that "everyone" she had emailed with, including "people in the White House, of course across the state department", knew that she was using a personal email account.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is said to be examining the server to determine whether the arrangement has compromised government secrets