“Her people have been trying to pin it on me”, the former Bush cabinet member told People magazine Saturday night.
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But Powell, who had said last week in a statement that he had no recollection of the conversation, told Page Six at Saturday’s Apollo in the Hamptons event, “The truth is she was using it (her personal email) for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did [during my term as Secretary of State]”.
Clinton never used a computer hooked up to that network.
“Judicial Watch will get Clinton under oath regarding the set-up of her outlaw server – something no other person, organization or agency has been ableto do, to date”, he said.
Powell issued the statement after veteran political journalist Joe Conason released an excerpt from his upcoming book about Bill Clinton that recounts a 2009 dinner party for Hillary Clinton hosted by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell normally stays out of the limelight.
“We believe it is a victory for law and order to get Hillary Clinton under oath answering questions about the server setup and why she did it”, he said. The State Department was ordered to provide any unpublished records related to the personnel files of Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s top aides, by the end of September.
Sullivan said Bentel testified to Congress that he was not aware of Clinton’s private email server before media accounts about it appeared in 2015, but that emails have emerged showing he could have been notified as early as 2009.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment on the accuracy of the book’s account.
Clinton campaign officials fear that materials could be leaked in order to hurt her campaign.
He gave the group until 14 October to submit the questions and Mrs Clinton has 30 days to respond.
Judicial Watch had requested to have Clinton submit to an in-person sworn deposition, but U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan instead ordered Clinton to respond to handwritten questions. Even her own Party finds her dishonest, according to a recent NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll that showed only 12 percent of Democrats found Clinton to be “honest” and “trustworthy”. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded last month there were no grounds to prosecute Clinton for the arrangement following a yearlong investigation.
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Judicial Watch lawyers outlined their questions in a July filing that sought to depose Clinton after its previous interviews with seven current and former State Department employees yielded little answers as to why she set up the server and whether the State Department conducted an adequate search of its records for the foundation’s Freedom of Information Act request.
