Posted on 09/08/2016 5:15:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell found himself on the defensive Thursday following the release of a 2009 email exchange with Hillary Clinton, describing his use of a private, dial-up email account to carry out government business.
Powell’s antiquated AOL account, which worked over a phone line in his office at the State Department, might have been more vulnerable to attack by hackers than the private email server the Clinton used during her tenure as secretary.
Powell said in a statement he viewed his use of private email to communicate with foreign leaders and senior U.S. officials as private conversations similar to phone calls. He said he was unaware of any requirement that those messages be preserved as government records, potentially subject to public release.
“I have been interviewed by the State Department (Inspector General) and the FBI about my actions and decisions,” Powell said Thursday. “I stand by my decisions and I am fully accountable.” …
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No, that's when he sent Clinton an email about it, AFTER she was already using her private system to evade the FOIA.
Powell was SoS from 2001 to 2005.
Bottom line is that Colin Powell was way over paid and appointed over his intellect. I didn’t like him from the time he stopped us from taking out Saddam the first time, through his endorsement of Barack “The Black President”, through all his lefty tripe.
This revelation that he was an idiot with his email and state secrets further solidifies what I think of Colin Bowell.
I doubt there were doing nearly as much communicating via email 20 years ago as today. Heck, fax machines still existed. Blackberry wasn’t even introduced until 1999.
And you don’t discuss classified information over a nonsecure line. You don’t even hold a classified discussion in the same room with a nonsecure phone. No wireless phones, period. Landlines have to be unplugged from the line. So his comment is irrelevant.
Powell was also Secretary of State almost a decade before Hillary. During that time, almost all private enterprises and governmental organizations evolved from email in-boxes that resided on individual machines to centralized email servers that stored and retained records. Indeed, Dodd-Frank and other regulatory actions in the 2000’s mandated that corporations store and retain email records.
What was a marginal practice by Colin Powell in 2001 was outright criminal evasion by Hillary Clinton in 2011.
Be to be completely fair, I’m willing to say both Powell and Clinton are unfit to serve as President.
Lock them BOTH up.
Hillary using his criminal behavior to justify her own just doesn’t cut it, and Republican’s shouldn’t fall for this.
Lock them BOTH up.
Lock his butt up
If anyone should know better, it’s a retired 4 star general. Lock both their azzes up.
I’m ashamed I defended just about everyone from the Bush Administration.
You’re right. Lock them both up.
Until they turn
Hillary is a lawyer. Powell is not a lawyer.
Only a very stupid lawyer (or a very crooked lawyer) asks a person who is not a lawyer for legal advice.
This is worse than bad judgment.
And I am certain that Hillary had to dodge a small army of State Department and other government lawyers to get the answer she wanted, presuming the question and answer is relevant at all.
She’s trying to play smart and dumb at the same time, and her base is just glugging back that Kool Aid like it was the best thing in the world.
colon proves again what a political hack and loser he is.
How the FBI Went Easy on Hillary Clinton
Published September 9, 2016
By Paul Sperry, The New York Post
It’s clear now the FBI conducted a sweetheart investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail shenanigans that appears to have been fixed from the start to go nowhere.
Far from exonerating Clinton, the nearly 60 pages of documents expose both the systematic destruction of subpoenaed evidence by Clinton’s aides and the curious lack of interest by investigators in recovering it.
Agents also failed to resolve unanswered questions, reconcile contradictory testimony or sweat uncooperative witnesses.
Comey declared the investigation free of undue influence three days after his agents interviewed Clinton at FBI headquarters under special terms. Agents weren’t allowed to Mirandize Clinton or place her under oath, even though she was the subject of a criminal investigation possibly involving espionage. They weren’t even allowed to record her answers.
What’s more, Comey made the two FBI agents who interviewed Clinton — along with all agents and forensic analysts involved in the so-called investigation — sign non-disclosure agreements gagging them from talking about the case even with other employees.
Comey even let Clinton’s State Department aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson sit in on the interview with Clinton’s other lawyers, despite the glaring conflict of interest. FBI documents make clear Mills and Samuelson led the effort to search and destroy Clinton’s subpoenaed e-mails and should’ve been prime targets of the investigation.
Comey didn’t even attend her interview and, per his testimony, only read a “summary” of it.
The FBI failed to pursue even the most basic lines of questioning. When Clinton pleaded ignorance about basic classification symbols, agents could’ve produced the State documents she signed acknowledging she was briefed about how to ID and handle classified information at the highest levels.
Read at: http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/09/09/how-fbi-went-easy-hillary-clinton
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