Clinton Personally Paid Staffer to Set Up Email Server: Aide

The State Department staffer who helped Hillary Clinton set up her private email server was paid to do so — but separately from his government job, a campaign aide confirmed to NBC News.

A campaign official said the personal server allowed Clinton to have control over her emails as Secretary of State, and by retaining Bryan Pagliano and paying him personally, it also meant taxpayer dollars wouldn't be spent on setting it up, The Washington Post first reported Saturday.

Pagliano has vowed to invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions after a congressional committee subpoenaed him, MSNBC confirmed this week.

Clinton told NBC's Andrea Mitchell she was "sorry" there had been so much controversy over her private email server, but declined to apologize for having used it.

"At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions," the Democratic presidential hopeful said.

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