During this entire election season, Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, has been dogged for using a private email server when she was the Secretary of State. There was an FBI investigation which took up a lot of time and taxpayer money. Congress even asked for notes from the investigation, and then they leaked the classified information.
Can you guess who told her to use a private email server?
Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, advised Clinton to do this. An email about this conversation has surfaced. Powell and Clinton had a conversation about this during a dinner party as well. A new book coming out about Bill Clinton, “Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” by Joe Conason, mentions this exchange.
One passage says:
“Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation’s next top diplomat. Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer.”
Powell’s office released a statement saying:
“General Powell has no recollection of the dinner conversation.”
“He did write Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department.”
Occupy Democrats reported:
“In fact, the Bush Administration so completely dropped the ball on installing modern, secure communications for our nation’s top officials that they could only offer a clunky $5000 PDA running on the mid-1990s platform Windows CE when Secretary Clinton took office in 2009.”
The investigation found that some of the emails that were marked classified were really not. After that entire investigation, they only found two “classified” emails. The GOP is going down in flames thanks to their nominee, Donald Trump. Clinton’s emails are not that bad.
Here is a news clip about the issue:
