Hillary Clinton has apologised for using
a private email server while she was Secretary of State in an attempt
to defuse the controversy which has dogged her presidential campaign.
Her remarks in an interview with ABC News came only a day after she
pointedly refuse to say sorry for bypassing the State Department’s email
system.
But in her latest remarks, she changed he position.
“That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility and I
am trying to be as transparent as I possibly can."” she said.
Mrs Clinton’s apology represents a dramatic change of tack, having previously dismissed the controversy as a media fixation, rather than an issue which was of any interest to voters.
She had insisted that she had not been guilty of misconduct.
Last Friday she told NBC that she was “sorry” that people had been confused by the issue and at the beginning of this week, she insisted: “What I did was allowed”.
But Mrs Clinton has not only faced a barrage of attacks from Republican opponents, who have even suggested it could be a criminal matter, but she has also seen her poll ratings plummet in the fight to secure the Democrat nomination.
The controversy over the emails has led to suggestions that she is trying to hide embarrassing material from her time in office - such as details of her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of four Americans including the ambassador, Chris Stevens.
Having once enjoyed a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders in the key state of New Hampshire, Mrs Clinton is now trailing the independent socialist senator from Vermont by nine points. In Iowa her lead over Mr Sanders has dropped from 24 points in July to only 11 according to the latest survey.
Waiting
in the wings is Joe Biden, the current vice president who last week
said he would not hesitate to run for the White House if he and his family were able to recover from the death of his son Beau in May.
Even though he has not declared his candidacy has won the backing of 22 per cent of Democrats according to the latest opinion poll.
Mrs Clinton’s attempts to put the email row to bed have proved ineffective, with a stream of damaging revelations in recent months.
Over the weekend, while campaigning in New Hampshire, Mrs Clinton said she and her family had paid a member of staff from the State Department to look after the server she used for personal and official emails.
She said she had hired Bryan Pagliano, a computer specialist to provide the technical help she needed. He has refused to discuss his work, invoking the US Constitution’s fifth amendment right against self incrimination.
Mrs Clinton has handed over thousands of emails to the State Department after wiping the server clean, with the most recent batch being released last week.
In all she has passed 55,000 pages of emails onto the State Department. Other emails, which she said were personal, have been deleted.
Mrs Clinton’s apology represents a dramatic change of tack, having previously dismissed the controversy as a media fixation, rather than an issue which was of any interest to voters.
She had insisted that she had not been guilty of misconduct.
Last Friday she told NBC that she was “sorry” that people had been confused by the issue and at the beginning of this week, she insisted: “What I did was allowed”.
But Mrs Clinton has not only faced a barrage of attacks from Republican opponents, who have even suggested it could be a criminal matter, but she has also seen her poll ratings plummet in the fight to secure the Democrat nomination.
The controversy over the emails has led to suggestions that she is trying to hide embarrassing material from her time in office - such as details of her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, which claimed the lives of four Americans including the ambassador, Chris Stevens.
Having once enjoyed a commanding lead over Bernie Sanders in the key state of New Hampshire, Mrs Clinton is now trailing the independent socialist senator from Vermont by nine points. In Iowa her lead over Mr Sanders has dropped from 24 points in July to only 11 according to the latest survey.
Waiting
in the wings is Joe Biden, the current vice president who last week
said he would not hesitate to run for the White House if he and his family were able to recover from the death of his son Beau in May. Even though he has not declared his candidacy has won the backing of 22 per cent of Democrats according to the latest opinion poll.
Mrs Clinton’s attempts to put the email row to bed have proved ineffective, with a stream of damaging revelations in recent months.
Over the weekend, while campaigning in New Hampshire, Mrs Clinton said she and her family had paid a member of staff from the State Department to look after the server she used for personal and official emails.
She said she had hired Bryan Pagliano, a computer specialist to provide the technical help she needed. He has refused to discuss his work, invoking the US Constitution’s fifth amendment right against self incrimination.
Mrs Clinton has handed over thousands of emails to the State Department after wiping the server clean, with the most recent batch being released last week.
In all she has passed 55,000 pages of emails onto the State Department. Other emails, which she said were personal, have been deleted.
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