Hillary Clinton says she asked the State Department to release her emails

Hillary Clinton has responded to the widespread criticism she received this week about her use of a personal email account, with a tweet.

 That comes after three days of political rebuke Clinton received for using a personal email account while she served as Secretary of State under the Obama administration. The New York Times first reported Clinton's email practices Monday evening.

The story has since branched off into various pegs - from concerns about whether Clinton broke federal law by shunning a government-issued email address, to whether she placed herself or the State Department at risk by setting up her own email domain.

For its part, the Clinton camp has told Business Insider "Clinton was careful to use the address in a manner that went above and beyond regulatory requirements and ensured her communications were preserved."

It's unclear when, or how many of Clinton's emails the State Department will release.