Fact Check.Org: Hillary Still Spinning Emails
Hillary Clinton once again made the claim that using a private email account and server while secretary of state was “absolutely permitted.” That’s pure spin. We’ve been through this before, but it bears repeating as more information becomes available:
Federal regulations allowed Clinton to send and receive emails outside the government system, but those emails had to be preserved before she left office. Clinton did not provide the department with emails from her private server until 21 months after she left office.
Her decision to conduct government business exclusively on a private server was, as one federal records expert put it, “inconsistent with long-established policies and practices … governing all federal agencies.” A federal judge in a lawsuit involving Clinton’s emails said she failed to follow “government policy.
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She said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that she thought it was more “convenient” to use a single personal email account to conduct both private affairs and government business, and she regrets having made that decision. ...
Clinton: Well, as I have said many times, there was — I was absolutely permitted, and I did it. And it turned out to be a mistake. It wasn’t the best choice.
Absolutely permitted? That’s a stretch.
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http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/clinton-still-spinning-emails/
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