Having burned through all the other excuses, Hillary Clinton is arguing that she's not a criminal, just really unqualified for government work.
An insane Podesta message to supporters claims that...
"While the rules surrounding use of a personal email account were clarified after Secretary Clinton left office – and the Inspector General recommends the State Department take measures to even further clarify them – the Secretary has once again acknowledged this was a mistake. And she has taken responsibility for that mistake – including in many interviews she’s done since the report’s release."
There's nothing to clarify. You can't do it. There was never any question about it.
Had Secretary Clinton known of any concerns about her email setup at the time, she would have taken steps to address them. She believed she was following the practices of other Secretaries and senior officials.
So the contention is that Hillary Clinton doesn't understand how government works and/or deemed herself to be above the law.
This is just George's speech all over again.
"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
This is Hillary's literal excuse right now.
Combined with the claim that setting up a private email server was just more convenient.