When asked why, he said, “Why do you think?” adding, “It doesn’t bother me”.
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Last month, the FBI closed a year-long investigation into whether or not Clinton and aides mishandled sensitive information through a private email server in the basement of her NY home.
The Facebook “Trending Topics” item links to a photo of the two former secretaries of state with a caption reading: “Colin Powell: Former Secretary of State Confirms He Recommended Using Personal Email to Hillary Clinton”. Powell reportedly told Clinton that his use of personal email to communicate with his staff had been “transformative for the department”.
Although denying having this conversation, Powell also declared that it doesn’t bother him. “Her people have been trying to pin it on me”, the retired general told People magazine Saturday night at an event in East Hampton, New York. (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. “It doesn’t bother me. But it’s OK; I’m free”.
FILE – In this October 10, 2008 file photo, former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen in Washington.
However, discrepancies between what she told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that former Secretary of State Colin Powell told her about using private email while in office, and what Powell himself says that he told her, indicate that she did not tell the truth to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Such an order was passed by the US District Judge Emmet G Sullivan as part of a lawsuit filed against Clinton by Judicial Watch, which had sought permission to question the former secretary of state under oath and in person. Powell was in attendance, along with other former secretaries including Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice.
Powell’s office responded Thursday evening in a statement claiming that he had no recollection of the dinner conversation at Madeleine Albright’s.
He used a secure department computer to manage classified information, the statement said.
A headline in the section on August 20 declared: “Colin Powell: Former Secretary of State Confirms He Recommended Using Personal Email to Hillary Clinton”.
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Clinton is now competing with Donald Trump for this year’s elections, hoping to be the 45 president of the United States of America.
