So. A few things.
1. Link to Clinton statement, and pertinent question:
Where was the server for her email located?
The server for her email was physically located on her property, which is protected by U.S. Secret Service.
2. "Why did she use her own email account?"
As the Secretary has said publicly, when she got to the Department, she wanted the simplicity of using one device.
Pure. Unadulterated. Bullshit.
I have a Yahoo and Gmail accounts open right now - one one device. There is no reason she couldn't have had a private email address and a .gov address that she could use on one device, easily, without having to log on or off in between uses. That is the laziest, dumbest, most dishonest explanation possible.
Update: Chris Cillizza at WaPo agrees, and adds:
1. Other administration officials at the Cabinet level who served at the same time as Clinton -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, for one -- had single devices with both a personal e-mail account and a work e-mail account. Did Clinton require some different setup because of security or hacking concerns? Wouldn't such protocol for having work and personal e-mails on a single device be administration-wide? If there is (and was) some gray area in terms of what Clinton could have in terms of e-mail on a single device, she may lose in the court of public opinion because virtually every person -- myself included -- has more than one e-mail account on their device. Now, not all of us are the nation's top diplomat. But, still.
And notes another way this is nonsense:
2. Lots and lots of people carry two devices. So, even if Clinton couldn't have two e-mail accounts on one device, why couldn't she just carry two devices? I regularly have lunch with people in politics who put (at least) two phones on the table when we sit down.
Let's add that government transparency is a lot more important than pocket convenience.
3. Everyone - here and elsewhere - who treated the story of HRC server at her home as completely outrageous - now should explain why exactly they treated it as outrageous. Was it because if it were true it would have been a really bad thing to do? Because if so, then should be consistent now.
There were also a shite ton of people who mocked the idea that it could be at her home on "technical ignorance" and related grounds. Ahem.
4. Clinton regrets not using government email account. And repeats dumb and dishonest part:
"Looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts."
First - since Clinton regrets it herself, defenses of it should really stop, no?
And - such bullshit. This should not have to be explained. Clinton a) had to have the very best phones possible, as millionaires and leading politicans commonly do; b) she had to know, through long experince with such technology, that her phones or Blackberry or whatever could handle more than one email account simultaneously; c) she had to have had tech specialists, government and/or private, advising her on such matters. This just has to be bullshit.
• As I've made clear for myself, this is ultimately about transparency, and citizen access to government records. We now know that for six years, nobody had access to the Secretary of State's official communications. That is indefensible.