Posted on 08/18/2016 7:37:32 PM PDT by drewh
Pressed by the F.B.I. about her email practices at the State Department, Hillary Clinton told investigators that former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account
The account is included in the notes the Federal Bureau of Investigation handed over to Congress on Tuesday, relaying in detail the three-and-a-half-hour interview with Mrs. Clinton in early July that led to the decision by James B. Comey, the bureau’s director, not to pursue criminal charges against her.
The journalist Joe Conason first reported the conversation between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Powell in his coming book about Bill Clinton’s postpresidency, “Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” which The Times received an advanced copy of.
Mr. Conason describes a conversation in the early months of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at the State Department at a small dinner party hosted by Madeleine Albright, another former secretary of state, at her home in Washington. Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice also attended.
“Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat,” Mr. Conason writes. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer.”
Mr. Conason continued, “Saying that his use of personal email had been transformative for the department,” Mr. Powell “thus confirmed a decision she had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages.”
A longtime defender of the Clintons, Mr. Conason interviewed both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton for the book, a granular account of the years since Mr. Clinton left office that will be published on Sept. 13.
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Exactly. They know a certain number of people will read only the headline. Even those who read more will remember the headline best and maybe not even absorb the fact that classified stuff was not on his personal email.
Good one! This reporter/author should have had you co-write this fiction.
But he’s not on the right. Four out of four of his opinions are left-wing.
Also, wasn’t her original excuse that her private email was so that she only had to use one device, rather than several devices?
She improved on it. Now it’s blame a black general.
She only does Downward Facing Dog.
yes, she has had a variety of tales, but the Colin Powell excuse is new, which just shows that she cannot stop spinning and lying.
Now her latest move is “blame the black guy!”
I thought they already had a private server before she became SecState. Bill and Hillary needed to hide their operations long before 2009.
She just added the DoS functions later on.
And this still does not clear her of having her staff move classified data from the highside to the lowside systems.
>>>”her original excuse that her private email was so that she only had to use one device,”
Yes, her original excuse was “convenience” of one device -which she didn’t, she used multiple.
What I’m trying to point out here is that the headline: “Colin Powell Advised Her to Use Private Email” is false - a blatant half truth. He told her to use private, but to use State for confidential. She did not.
It’s just blatantly false in its headline and text.
The good thing is that bumping her email story hurts Hillary. She needs it to die.
This headline would fit the same report and be more accurate:
“Hillary Told FBI that Colin Polin Advised Her to Use State Dept. Email for Classified Information.” [which she did not]
Amen. Personal email to communicate its family and friends, .gov Email for everything related to your job.
I do the same at work, nothing work related touches my personal Email. The only time personal might hit my work email is in a emergency situation to alert me.
Joe Conason - isn’t he a shill for the Dems, especially for Hilery and Bubba? Nothing he says is likely to be true.
She could be lying. Ask Powell.
Blame it on the Black guy...
Probably both.
And Colin is going to ENDORSE the LIAR!!! SUCKER!
Joe “Dead Eyes” Conason drinks the Clintons bathwater.
Say it again....PRIVATE E-Mail is NOT the same thing as having a PRIVATE SERVER!!!!!
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