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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell complained to a friend that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “screws up” everything she touches thanks to overwhelming personal hubris, a newly-leaked email reveals. Powell sent the email, one of thousands leaked by the organization DC Leaks, to private equity tycoon Jeffrey Leeds Aug. 18, 2015, a few days after Clinton’s private email server was seized by the FBI. Leeds remarked that Clinton’s email scandal was getting “worse every day” and that she “may be in serious trouble.” Powell responded saying Clinton’s problems were her own fault. “Everything HRC touches she kind of screws...

An email sent by a subcontractor suggests that Hillary Clinton’s deputies repeatedly directed them to erase months-old backups of her State Department emails, just as federal officials began asking for the emails. The email was described Tuesday, in a letter sent by Senator Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)66% , the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee. Johnson’s letter outlines the complicated arrangement between Hillary Clinton’s operating company, Clinton Executive Services Corp. and its computer-server subcontractor, Platte River Networks. The Platte River subcontractor used a email backup device operated by another firm, Datto. Johnson writes: “It also appears [Platte...