Hillary defends use of personal email account as `convenience’

Hillary Clinton, under attack for using a personal email address to conduct US State Department business, said she did it as a matter of “convenience“. At her first news conference since leaving her administration post two years ago, Clinton conceded she wished she had used a government email address as secretary of state but said she violated no rules and did not send classified material through the private account. “I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, be cause I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two,“ said a self-assured Clinton.Clinton said she had provided all her emails that were work-related to the State Department and did not keep personal emails. But she also said the private server contained communications from her and her husband, an apparent contradiction to her statement that emails had been deleted.