Hillary Clinton said she deleted emails stored on her private server during her time at the State Department because she “didn’t see any reason to keep them.”
The likely Democratic presidential candidate took questions from members of the media at the United Nations headquarters in New York Tuesday afternoon. Clinton took questions from reporters about the recent revelation that she kept a private server for her own email while she was serving at the State Department under President Barack Obama. Throughout the press conference, Clinton argued she had “fully complied” with the regulations and rules for turning over “work-related” emails. She also added that it was at her discretion to determine what were personal and what were work-related emails.
“Why did you delete the personal emails?” asked Ben Smith of Buzzfeed.
“Because they were personal and private about matters that I believed were in the scope of my personal privacy and that particularly of other people,” Clinton said. “They had nothing to do with work, but I didn’t see any reason to keep them.”
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