The emails were released by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cummings said he procured the documents through a procedure that allows members of the committee to obtain federal records.
House Democrats Release Emails Between Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton Showing Advice He Gave Her - NBC News
I think it is important to note that Powell thought e-mails were like phone calls - not part of official records. He thought this because both used phone lines. Since that time, it has been more or less common knowledge that e-mails are part of official records. In private, they are what lawyers refer to as "discoverable." Phone calls are not discoverable.
Powell mentioned the existence of this email a few weeks ago, and at the time said that he didn;t have a copy of it. My point there is that this email is "old news." Hillary citing Powell as justification for her private server has been tried at least twice in the past month.
She enjoys using Colin and the FBI as a buffer against the GOP.
“Since that time, it has been more or less common knowledge that e-mails are part of official records.”
It was well known before that time, too. A large swath of Reagan-era emails were FOIA-ed before Powell took the State Dept position. The whole purpose of Hillary’s homebrew was to evade a similar FOIA mess.
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.