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Addressing the ongoing email controversy for the first time, Hillary Clinton said today that she used a private account out of "convenience" and later went through a "thorough process" to deliver her work-related messages to the State Department.

"I opted for convenience ... because I thought it would be easier to carry one device," she told reporters at the United Nations in New York.

She said that she "chose not to keep" personal, private emails that had to do with planning her daughter Chelsea Clinton's wedding, her mother's funeral and yoga routines.

Clinton also talked about the private server that was used to host her email domain, saying that the system was set up for her husband and his post-presidential office that "proved to be effective and secure."

She also confirmed earlier reports that the server was based out of the former first couple's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"There were no security breaches," she added.

Clinton maintained that she "fully complied with every rule I was governed by." She did not directly address a 2005 update in the Foreign Affairs Manual codified by the State Department which ruled that employees could only use private email accounts for official business if they turned those emails over to be entered into government computers. That ruling also forbade State Department employees from including "sensitive but unclassified" information on private email, except for some very narrow exceptions. She did, however, note that she never sent classified information via email.

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WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, a likely 2016 White House candidate, on Tuesday plans to address her use of private email during her time at the U.S. State Department in a press conference following a speech at the United Nations, according to media reports.

CBS News, MSNBC and CNN, citing a Clinton aide and other unnamed sources, said Clinton would hold a news conference after her scheduled remarks in New York, slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT).

Reuters could not immediately confirm the reports. A spokesman for Clinton urged reporters to attend the UN event.

Clinton, Democrats' presumed front-runner for the party's 2016 presidential nominee, has come under fire for her use of a non-government email while working as secretary of state under President Barack Obama.

She had been expected to publicly address the issue sometime this week. Republicans have pounced on the email revelation, first reported by the New York Times last week, but some Democrats have also called for more disclosure.

Democrats on Tuesday urged Clinton to offer a public explanation about her use of a private email, including the use of her own private computer server.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told MSNBC that she did not know details of Clinton's email use.

"So we'll see what her perspective is... I know we'll get the answers shortly," Gillibrand said.

"She should come forward and explain the situation," Richard Durbin, the Senate minority whip, also told MSNBC.

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Hillary Clinton answers questions at the United Nations in New York yesterday. Ms Clinton admitted she made a mistake in choosing not to use an official email account when she was US secretary of state. Photograph: Don Emmertdon Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

Ms Clinton told a press conference at the United Nations she opted, for convenience, to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the state department to carry only one mobile device. Looking back it would have been better to use two separate phones and two separate email accounts.

Ms Clinton said all her work-related emails would be released to the public, adding that the publication would give unprecedented insight into a high government officials daily communications, which I think will be quite interesting.

Minutes before Ms Clintons remarks, US state department officials told reporters emails sent by Ms Clinton would be posted to a website after a set given to them by her inner circle had been reviewed. However, the officials said the process would take several months.

About 300 redacted emails relating to the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic station in Benghazi, Libya, are reportedly to be the first selection posted. The state department did not specify what proportion of Ms Clintons archive would be published.

We will review the entire 55,000-page set and release in one batch at the end of that review to make sure that standards are consistently applied, Jen Psaki, the state department spokeswoman, told a briefing in Washington.

Until yesterday, her response had been limited to a single tweet, which left questions unanswered. I want the public to see my email, Ms Clinton posted last week. I asked state to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

Data experts have questioned the security of her private email setup, which was detached from government servers. Republicans in Congress, journalists and transparency advocates are demanding all messages relating to her work as Americas most senior diplomat be disclosed in response to ongoing inquiries in Washington and public records requests.

Officials previously said Ms Clintons team produced more than 55,000 pages of relevant emails. But it remains unclear how many messages, if any, have been held back.

Barack Obama and his advisers have sought to distance themselves from the controversy. Stressing that his own emails comply with all demands under presidential records laws, Mr Obamas advisers have argued Ms Clintons camp is responsible.

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"I opted for convenience."

That was the basic message that came out of Hillary Rodham Clinton's press conference Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations, the first time other than one brief tweet that the former secretary of State has directly addressed concerns that she used a private e-mail account and server for her official work while she was in office.

"Looking back, it would have been better if I had simply used a second e-mail account and carried a second phone" for private correspondence, Mrs. Clinton said at the conference. But at the time, she said, "I thought it would be easier to carry one device."

The press conference came a week after news about Clinton's private e-mail use broke, during which Clinton has been under increased pressure to answer questions about it. Even supporters, like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D) of California, were publicly encouraging her to speak, lest her silence prove too damaging.

Clinton seemed to be trying to wait it out, as she has successfully done with other scandals, but the questions and conspiracy theories from her opposition continued to grow.

On Tuesday, she emphasized repeatedly that she broke no rules. When she was in office, there was no prohibition on government officials using private e-mail accounts for official business (a policy that since has been updated). Other secretaries of State, including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, also used personal e-mails for State Department business, though not as exclusively as Clinton did.

She also discounted suggestions that the 55,000 pages of e-mails she provided to the State Department which the Department has said it will be making public on a website once it has reviewed them didn't include all her official e-mails.

Clinton says that she had a thorough review done of her e-mails, and about half were work-related, while the other half "were not in any way related to my work," and included things like correspondence about her daughter's wedding and condolence notes to friends. She said most of her work-related e-mails went to officials at their government email address, and so were automatically recorded. Her direction was to "err on the side of providing anything that could possibly be viewed as work-related" to the State Department, she said.

But that statement essentially telling the American public to trust her may be hard for some of her critics to swallow.

"If theres one thing skeptics arent going to do its taking Hillary Clintons word for something," says Jack Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in California.

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