MOSCOW (Sputnik) — US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton apologized for using a personal email account while she was the State Secretary.
"What I had done was allowed, it was above board. But in retrospect, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility," Clinton told the ABC television network on Tuesday.
In March 2015, Clinton came under close scrutiny for using her personal e-mail account for official purposes while serving as US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
In August, the US intelligence community inspector general reported that at least two of the Clinton emails reviewed by his office contained material classified as Top Secret, the highest classification, which cannot be sent to non-secure accounts. The Clinton presidential campaign disagreed with the initial review findings.
