McCaskill: Clinton used private email for 'privacy'

The Washington Examiner reports:

Sen. Claire McCaskill on Thursday defended Hillary Clinton's use of a private email to conduct official business by saying the then-secretary of state wanted "privacy."

"She's admitted this was a mistake. I think we need to realize she wasn't trying to undermine the United States of America, she was trying to protect her privacy," the Missouri Democrat said on MSNBC.

Sen. McCaskill, who has endorsed her former Senate colleague's campaign for the presidency, said Clinton was "probably misguided," but speculated that she wanted "some free space of privacy" after being "under attack her entire life."

Sen. McCaskill said if she were Clinton's campaign adviser, "I would probably tell her to spend a lot more time talking about this buffoon" to help put this controversy behind her, in an apparent reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Imagine that.