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Summary:Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed email concerns in a statement followed by a question and answer segment with the press. We have the full video, plus analysis of her comments.

In a press conference today (video below), Hillary Clinton confirmed that she and former President Clinton did run their email through a private server "protected by the Service Service."

In answering questions, she stated that no classified email messages were sent through her private email account and that at the time of joining the State Department it seemed easier to keep using one device and one email account.

She addressed concerns about deleting private emails and the archiving of government emails. Her premise was that others in the government were mailed on their .gov accounts, so those messages would be archived at the receiving end.

She further said that after reviewing and turning over all government related emails, even those that could only tenuously be considered government-related, she then destroyed those emails that were personal.

This, of course, is one of the big areas where the Federal Records Act gives latitude to government employees that may not be in our long term best interests in the form of disclosure.

The way Mrs. Clinton described her actions regarding personal vs. government email is well within the law, but that law does have some failings. We will continue to address these issues years into the future until we decide whether or not we want all email messages (and texts and chats) archived, regardless of whether they are personal or government-related.

In any case, she confirmed that the family is operating a server, stating it began with President Clinton's use. It was not clear whether that use began while President Clinton was in the Oval Office (which would possibly be 1990s tech) or whether it began when Mr. Clinton started using it at some date following his departure from the White House.

Mrs. Clinton further stated that there were no breaches of the server itself, but as we well know, there was at least one "Guccifer" breach in the email messages that were sent to her and her server.

In this context, then, my earlier analysis stating that it was unlikely she had a server was incorrect. I now find myself intrigued by what, exactly, they have been operating and exactly how it was configured -- details we're unlikely to get.

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Hillary Clinton: Yes, I did operate a private server

Summary:Did she do anything wrong? Were federal record-keeping laws broken? Was security compromised? Email expert and presidential scholar David Gewirtz deconstructs Hillary Clinton's emailgate.

Credit: APLet's start with the elephant in the room. Hillary Clinton could be America's next president.

According to PredictWise, she currently has a 74.9 percent chance of winning the Democratic nomination (the next closest is Elizabeth Warren, with a 9.3 percent chance and Joe Biden with a 3 percent chance). Of definite concern to the Republicans, she has a 44.7 percent chance compared to Jeb Bush with 15.9 percent, Scott Walker with 6.4 percent, and Marco Rubio with 6.3 percent.

The point is, a fuss about Hillary Clinton's email isn't going away. The stakes for all the parties are way too high.

But did she do anything wrong? Were federal record-keeping laws broken? Was security compromised?

UPDATE 3/10/2015: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed email concerns in a statement followed by a question and answer segment with the press. We have the full video, plus analysis of her comments. Read Hillary Clinton: Yes, I did operate a private server.

As the update above shows, five days after this article was published, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that she did have a private email server. Keep reading to see how my original, now clearly incorrect analysis was derived, and also for details that might shed light on more of her practices.

I'm basing this analysis on an aggregation of other press reports and public registry information because the sources who were so willing to provide information when I was investigating the Bush White House email situation are much less helpful when looking at a Clinton. That's not exactly a surprise. Politics is politics.

As was the case with the Bush email controversy, the press reports are confusing. Also, many reports are making incorrect assertions, probably due to a surprising (in this day and age) lack of understanding about how the internet works.

I'll start with an Associated Press report claiming that Mrs. Clinton (or, presumably, a staffer) "ran [her] own computer system for her official emails" out of her family's home in Chappaqua, New York.

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Hillary Clinton's little email fuss: Beyond 'servers in the basement'

The committee investigating the Benghazi attacks formally requested Friday that Hillary Rodham Clinton turn her email server over to an independent third party so it can be scrutinized to determine whether she and the Obama administration complied with open records laws.

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the committees chairman, sent a letter to the former secretary of states personal lawyer to make the request, which he said only comes after exhaustive efforts to get a look at her communications during the time of the 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post and CIA annex in Libyas second-largest city.

Though Secretary Clinton alone is responsible for causing this issue, she alone does not get to determine its outcome, the South Carolina Republican said.

Mrs. Clinton earlier this month admitted she refused to use an official government-issued email account and instead conducted government business on a personal account she set up on a server she controlled out of her New York home.

She has asserted she complied with the law by hoping her emails were being cataloged based on whom she was mailing, and, by late last year nearly two years after she left office turning over about 30,000 emails she retroactively deemed to be government business. She said she did not turn over about 32,000 other messages she deemed private.

Mrs. Clinton previously has rejected turning her email server over to someone else, saying she believes the law gives her final say on which emails should be deemed public.

Mr. Gowdy has said Mrs. Clinton could turn her server over to a retired federal judge, an inspector general or some other third party with a professional reputation for even-handedness.

A Clinton spokesman, however, reiterated her stance that she has met her obligations.

Weve turned over all of her work emails, and taken the extraordinary step of asking the State Department to release all of them, said spokesman Nick Merrill. When they are released, which we hope to be soon, it will offer an unprecedented opportunity for the American people to see for themselves that they are all there, and then some.

Democrats on Capitol Hill have rallied to Mrs. Clintons defense, with Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat and a member of the Benghazi committee, saying he was deeply troubled by Mr. Gowdys move.

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Hillary Clinton ordered to turn over email server by House Benghazi committee

Its all but assumed that 2016 presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton soon will announce her candidacy. Shes swooping up wealthy donors, lining up eager-beaver staffers, and reportedly preparing to lease a campaign headquarters facility in Brooklyn.

But what if she doesnt? What if shes truly worn out with being a Clinton and all that costs the constant criticism and controversy? (Former Bill Clinton paramour Monica Lewinsky back in the news giving a TED talk on bullying couldnt have helped.) What if she really does want to devote most of her time to being a grandma?

The result would be a mass scramble for the most viable alternative someone who could compete with the likes of tea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz, (R) of Texas, (expected to announce his candidacy Monday) or mainstream GOP favorite Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida now lining up big Republican donors.

Mrs. Clinton was in Iowa this past week, and so was Politicos Gabriel Debenedetti.

Theres a sense of certainty surrounding her prospects in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, yet its accompanied by a deep sense of unease thats rooted in Iowas complicated history with the Clintons, Debenedetti writes. Few expect shell get much of a challenge, but almost no one is under the illusion shell be campaigning in Iowa as a happy warrior either.

The latest Reuters/Ipsos wouldnt have brought smiles to the Clinton camp either not only because it shows her support softening but because it indicates that the controversy over her private email accounts is alive among Democrats as well as Republicans eager to weaken her wherever and whenever they can.

Support for Clinton's candidacy has dropped about 15 percentage points since mid-February among Democrats, with as few as 45 percent saying they would support her, Reuters reported. Even Democrats who said they were not personally swayed one way or another by the email flap said that Clinton could fare worse because of it, if and when she launches her presidential campaign.

Even among Democrats, according to this poll, 46 percent agreed there should be an independent review of all of Clinton's emails to ensure she turned over everything that is work-related, and 41 percent said they backed the Republican-controlled congressional committee's effort to require Clinton to testify about the emails.

Still, Clinton remains far ahead of any other potential Democratic candidate, and any dithering on her part makes it hard for anybody else to jump in.

My view of the electorate is, we react badly to inevitability, because we experience it as entitlement, and that is risky, it seems to me, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick told The New York Times recently.

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What happens if Hillary Clinton doesnt run? Chaos for Democrats. (+video)

Summary:The media creates mythology. David Gewirtz looks at how the AP created a new, completely false Hillary Clinton myth about a fake identity, how it's sticking, and where it all went wrong.

There is more to the Hillary Clinton personal email story than just Hillary Clinton and her personal email use.

It's also a story about a trusted news establishment that broke a story in the morning about the leading presumptive presidential candidate using a fake identity, let it run through an entire day's news cycle, and then changed that story in the same article later that evening -- without ever releasing an update or correction.

What I'm about to describe is how the media can create its own misinformation, resulting in an entirely new (and incorrect) mythology. The result: leaving an already overly partisan citizenry with an impression of an odd Clinton misdeed that is, in fact, wholly false.

UPDATE 3/10/2015: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed email concerns in a statement followed by a question and answer segment with the press. We have the full video, plus analysis of her comments. Read Hillary Clinton: Yes, I did operate a private server.

It started with an Associated Press report claiming that Mrs. Clinton (or, presumably, a staffer) "ran her own computer system for her official emails" out of her family's home in Chappaqua, New York.

At 8:09 AM ET, AP ran a story headlined "CLINTON RAN OWN COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR HER OFFICIAL EMAILS." In it, AP not only asserted that Clinton ran a server, but also that she used a fake identity, one "Eric Hoteham" to register the domain name.

Later, AP changed the story quite a bit. When my editor and I went back to the same AP URL later in the day to do a proof edit of my Hillary Clinton email coverage, the AP story was quite different. Now the headline was "HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS CLINTON EMAILS IN BENGHAZI PROBE."

Eric Hoteham was no longer a sock puppet, but instead a typo. Even so, the damage was done.

We all update stories. I've done it relatively often myself. When I do, I mark where in the article I've changed the story, and indicate that the story was updated. Where AP went wrong is it didn't mention the story had been updated and just let this new fake identity narrative take hold.

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Emailgate: How media mistakes created Hillary Clinton's fake, fake identity