Hillary Clinton questioned by FBI on emails
US Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, has been questioned by the FBI over her use of emails while she was Ssecretary of State, her campaign says.
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A spokesperson said it was a voluntary interview.
The FBI is investigating Mrs Clinton and her aides over whether they mishandled classified information on a private email server she used while serving as secretary of state.
Mrs Clinton denies handling classified information in her private emails.
She said she set up the email address for reasons of convenience, because it was easier to do everything from her Blackberry than to have several phones or tablets.
However, a State Department inquiry accused her and other former US secretaries of state of poorly managing email security.
The justice department is now seeking to establish whether this constitutes a criminal offence.
Let's face it - this is not really how you want to start a presidential campaign.
Mrs Clinton is trying to pitch herself as a sensible, qualified, experienced candidate who's facing an outlandish controversial opponent in Republican Donald Trump.
Being questioned by the FBI for three-and-a-half hours is not going to help her case.
It gives her Republican opponents ammunition to describe her as untrustworthy.
Mr Trump has already nicknamed her "crooked Hillary" and uses it with glee at every campaign stump speech.
The timing of this long-awaited interview is also interesting. This is a holiday weekend filled with Independence Day barbeques and parades. The Clinton campaign will hope that voters are more interested in where to watch the fireworks than the rolling network news coverage.
In just a few weeks Mrs Clinton will stand on the Democratic Convention stage and be formally announced as the party nominee. During that same time, the FBI will decide whether or not to bring formal charges. Legal experts say it is unlikely. In that case she may have time to put this controversy behind her personally.
