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Saturday 5 September 2015
Clinton: I didn’t ‘stop and
think’ about email system
KEN THOMAS may disagree, as I now dis-
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hill- agree, with the choice that
ary Rodham Clinton said
Friday her use of a private I made. But the facts that
email system at the State
Department wasn’t the I have put forth have re-
“best choice” and ac-
knowledged she didn’t mained the same.”
“stop and think” about
her email set-up when she Republicans criticized
became President Barack
Obama’s secretary of state Clinton’s unwillingness to
in 2009.
The Democratic presiden- apologize for the decision
tial front-runner said in an
interview with NBC News and said it underscored
that she was immediately
confronted by a number polls which have shown
of global hotspots after
joining the new Obama large numbers of people
administration as its top
diplomat and didn’t think questioning her trustworthi-
much about her email af-
ter arriving at her new job. ness. “What’s clear is Hill-
Her use of private email has
now become a distraction ary Clinton regrets that she
for her presidential cam-
paign. got caught and is paying
“You know, I was not think-
ing a lot when I got in. a political price, not the
There was so much work
to be done. We had so fact her secret email server
many problems around
the world,” Clinton said. “I put our national security at
didn’t really stop and think
what kind of email system risk,” said Michael Short, a
will there be?”
But Clinton did not apolo- spokesman for the Repub- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Des Moines Area Com-
gize for her decision when munity College in Ankeny, Iowa. Clinton said Friday her use of a private email system at the State
asked directly, “Are you lican National Committee. Department wasn’t the “best choice” and acknowledged she didn’t “stop and think” about her
sorry?” Instead, she again email set-up when she became President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in 2009.
said she wishes she had The conversation about
“made a different choice” (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
and that she takes re- emails led off a wide-rang-
sponsibility for the decision
to use a private email ac- ing interview that included
count and server based at
her home in suburban New Vice President Joe Biden’s
York.
She added it was a choice interest in a potential Dem-
that should not raise ques-
tions about her judgment. ocratic primary bid, Clin-
“I am very confident that
by the time this campaign ton’s plans to address the
has run its course, people
will know that what I’ve Iran nuclear deal and her
been saying is accurate,”
Clinton said, adding: “They views of Republican front-
runner Donald Trump.
Following a summer in
which both Trump and Sen.
Bernie Sanders, a longshot
rival for the Democratic
nomination, drew large
campaign audiences, Clin-
ton sought to cast her can-
didacy as one rooted in
tackling the problems “that
keep families up at night.”
“Because I think you can
come with your own ideas
and you can, you know,
wave your arms and give a
speech, but at the end of
the day, are you connect-
ing with and really hearing
what people are either say-
ing to you or wishing that
you would say to them?”
she said.
Clinton’s interview comes
as current and former aides
are testifying before a con-
gressional panel investigat-
ing the deadly 2012 Beng-
hazi attacks. q
