Hillary Clinton, Citing Her ‘Mistake,’ Apologizes for Private E-mail

Hillary Clinton acknowledged that her use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state was a “mistake,” and apologized directly for it, uttering words that many of her allies have waited to hear from her in hopes that she can quell a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy for months. “That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” Clinton said. “And I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can.”

Clinton’s apology was the more striking for coming just a day after an interview in which she maintained that she did not need to apologize for her private e-mail account and server, saying, “What I did was allowed.” And in an interview on Sept 4, Clinton, asked if she was sorry, allowed only that she was “sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions.”