We only learned this week that Powell suggested using private email because that’s what she told FBI investigators during an interview in July.
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“The truth is she was using (the server) for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did”.
Colin Powell’s office in a statement said he could not recall the dinner conversation.
In a statement provided Friday to The Associated Press, Powell said he emailed Clinton describing his use of a personal AOL account for unclassified messages while leading the State Department under President George W. Bush.
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.
The first source is Hillary Clinton herself: NYT referred her account to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the notes of which were handed over to Congress earlier in the week.
Judge Emmet Sullivan said Judicial Watch should be able to ask Clinton questions about her emails, but he ruled that questioning doesn’t need to happen in person. On Saturday night, Powell told People Magazine that Clinton was trying to blame him for the email scandal. Powell reportedly told Clinton that his use of personal email to communicate with his staff had been “transformative for the department”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Cleveland Industrial Innovation Center, Monday, June 13, 2016, in Cleveland.
The New York Times recently reported that Powell urged Clinton in 2009 to make regular use of a private email account.
The New York Times reported last week that Mrs Clinton, when questioned by the FBI, told investigators that she had received the advice from her predecessor.
Colin Powell would love to be excluded from Hillary Clinton’s email nonsense, if you don’t mind. By all rights, the FBI should open another investigation into this and other possible falsehoods Clinton gave during her interview.
Key differences existed in the former secretary of states’ email practices, however. “Now we learn about another 15,000 emails she failed to turn over and they’ve just been discovered”, Trump said. Clinton used an unsecured email server for all messages, classified or not, exposing national security secrets to any hacker who would care to look.
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FBI Director James Comey announced last month that no criminal charges would be filed over Clinton’s use of private email servers while secretary of state, but rebuked her for “extremely careless” handling of classified information.
