Hillary Clinton defended her use of private email server while she was secretary of State as well as husband Bill Clinton during an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday.
The Democratic presidential front-runner insisted that her lawyers conducted a "very thorough review process" when probed about her written statement under oath that she had turned over all of her work-related State Department emails, only to have certain upturn which were sent to former commander of the U.S. Central Command David Petraeus.
The wife of the former U.S. president claimed that "there was a transition period" and added that she was not "focused" on her email account when inquired about the "discrepancy" between her statement which her email system began in March 2009 and the presence of emails between her and David from January that year.
"I can't control the technical aspects of it," Hillary held. "I'm not by any means a technical expert. I relied on people who were."
She was also asked about her husband's remarks during an interview on CNN in which he blamed the Republicans and media for the forceful attention on his wife's use of a private email account while at State Department, USA Today shared.
"He does get upset when I get attacked," Hillary told NBC News' Chuck Todd. However, she said she is not blaming everything on the opposition. "Of course, I take responsibility. It was my choice."
She also retold her claims that the use of personal email was for "convenience" and that the "vast majority" were to others in the government using official email addresses.
Michael Short responded to Hillary's latest comments on her email use and said that "the facts are not on her side." "Not only did Hillary Clinton withhold emails she certified were turned over, she continues to perpetuate falsehoods about being transparent when the server itself was an exercise in skirting public records laws," the Republican National Committee spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Ken Cuccinelli informed via New York Post that there are five elements that must be met for a violation of the statute, and they can all be found in section (a) of the statute: "(1) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, (2) by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, (3) knowingly removes such documents or materials (4) without authority and (5) with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location [shall be guilty of this offense]."
"The very purpose of Clinton's server was to intentionally retain documents and materials - all e-mails and attachments - on the server in her house, including classified materials," the media outlet added. "The intent required is only to undertake the action, i.e., to retain the classified documents and materials in the unauthorized fashion addressed in this statute."