“Her people have been trying to pin it on me”, Powell told the Post.
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He added that, “her people have been trying to pin it on me”. “It doesn’t bother me…” Clinton reportedly told the Federal Bureau of Investigation during its probe of her email practices of Powell’s alleged advice.
Secretary of State Colin Powell is pushing back against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s assertion that he suggested she use her private email account for non-classified information.
Powell’s office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he “has no recollection of the dinner conversation”.
The Clinton campaign has long highlighted other government officials’ e-mail practices-including Powell’s-to justify her own, but according to the Times, had never before publicly alleged that Powell advised her to use a personal e-mail account while in the State Department. (UPI). Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI’s prior written consent. (The story’s subtext, that former and current Cabinet secretaries sit around and discuss ways to circumvent public-records laws, is a separate issue.) For another, Powell used a private email address but not a private server; his address was through AOL.
The FBI probe found 14,900 documents that were not among the 30,000 work-related emails returned to the State Department by Clinton’s lawyers, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tells the Washington Post.
Clinton also paid a State Department employee under the table to manage her email system.
Clinton, who faces Republican Donald Trump in the November 8 US presidential election, has been dogged for more than a year about questions over her use of private email account and a personal computer server while she was secretary of state from 2009-2013, during President Barack Obama’s first term.
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While Clinton has regularly pointed to Powell’s use of a personal email account to defend her email use, there are major differences between the two former diplomats’ email setups. More than 100 of those emails contained information that was classified when they were sent or received. Powell said, “It doesn’t bother me”.
