What did Clinton--Powell & Rice have in common? EVERYTHING regarding emails and classified info.

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"The truth about the last two Republican secretaries of state has finally come out: Colin Powell and aides to Condoleezza Rice trafficked in classified information on their personal email accounts. This is an enormous scandal!

Oh, wait. No, it’s not.


This news involving Powell and Rice is meaningless except that it sets up a rational conversation (finally) about the Hillary Clinton bogus “email-gate” imbroglio. Perhaps the partisans on each side will now be more willing to listen to the facts. From the beginning, the “scandal” about Clinton using a personal email account when she was secretary of state—including the finding that a few documents on it were retroactively deemed classified—has been a big nothing-burger perpetuated for partisan purposes, with reports spooned out by Republicans attempting to deceive or acting out of ignorance. Conservative commentators have raged, presidential candidates have fallen over themselves in apoplectic babbling, and some politicians have proclaimed that Clinton should be in jail for mishandling classified information. The nonsense has been never-ending, and attempts to cut through the fog of duplicity have been fruitless.

But Powell and Rice’s aides did nothing wrong. (I’m going to focus on them so that partisans who say Clinton broke the law have to attack respected Republicans first.) Start with this: Powell and Rice, like all modern secretaries of state, each had at least two email accounts—one personal and the other for communications designated as highly classified at the time of their creation . For classified information, both of them—and their aides with appropriate clearance—had a sensitive compartmented information facility, or what is known in intelligence circles as a SCIF. Most senior officials who deal with classified information have a SCIF in their offices and their homes.

Then there is the issue of servers. Where did Powell and Rice’s staff have their servers? Who knows, and who cares? Maybe they were private with special security and no public access. Or maybe they were just an AOL server. Whichever it was, they would be just as open to hacking as the State Department servers. In fact, the State Department general email system has been hacked multiple times, with terabytes of information improperly downloaded in 2006 alone. There has been no indication that the email accounts of either Powell or Rice’s staff were compromised.

Powell may have made one mistake in all this. He has said he never backed up his emails or printed them out; that was necessary to comply with some of the preservation rules detailed in the Federal Register. Of course, that doesn’t mean they can’t be recovered, since the FOIA staff is now reviewing his emails.

The bottom line: Democrats may try to turn the revelations about the email accounts used by Powell and Rice’s staff into a scandal. They may release press statements condemning the former secretaries of state; they may call for scores of unnecessary congressional hearings; they may go to the press and confidently proclaim that crimes were committed by these honorable Republicans. But it would all be lies. Powell and Rice did nothing wrong. This could be considered a scandal only by ignorant or lying partisans.

So there is no Powell or Rice email scandal. And no doubt, that will infuriate the Republicans who are trying so hard to trick people into believing Clinton committed a crime by doing the exact same thing as her predecessors.
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

There's much more detailed information in the article regarding classified information. But it's clear MANY on this board are suffering from OCDD (obsessive Clinton derangement disorder) so it may be very difficult for some to get through it all. Others may have to read it 5 or 6 times to get it to sink in.

We can only hope that once Democrats take over the house they keep their integrity level high--and don't drag us through more email investigations into Colin Powell & Condi Rice emails.

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Hillary Clinton was subject to different rules than her predecessors. She broke those rules.
 
Hillary is doing what democrats have always done, use blacks for their scapegoat.

Comey was clear that what Hillary did was put our CIA agents lives in danger. To that there is no doubt. I have heard none of that about Rice or Powell. And even if they did exactly the same that does not make any of them innocent. They didn't do what Hillary did but don't let facts bite you in the ass.
 
Why are the jackass party of slavery idiots so eagerly letting Crooked Hillary steal and destroy their property?

The State Department Emails do not belong to that kunt. They are public property subject to the Freedom of Information Act requests. She stole them and vandalized and even destroyed thousands of them. Like a criminal trying to hide evidence.
 
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Why are the jackass party of slavery idiots so eagerly let Crooked Hillary steal and destroy their property?

The State Department Emails do not belong to her. They are public property subject to the Freedom of Information Act. She stole them and vandalized and even destroyed thousands of them.

Because the public is an inconvienence to 'Globalist-No Borders' Democraps, except at election time; which is when they really get their jollies off lying to them more than normal.
 
Powell didn't have a personal server.......idjit!


He used AOL---America online, and actually sent Hillary Clinton an email that stated the below: Now I don't know who was more prudent, & thoughtful of security measures. A Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that had a Senior IT staffer working at the State Department who set up and maintained her server, or someone that just had a personal AOL email account that was receiving information from State Department staffers.-do you--LOL? Which one would you prefer?

Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former 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." Colin Powell Says Hillary Clinton's 'People Have Been Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him

You better dam well hope that Democrats don't take over the House in 2016--because you'll be up to your email eyeballs in taxpayer paid for investigations from here to eternity over Colin Powell and Condi Rice's use of personal email accounts--while they were Secretary's of State.
 
Hillary Clinton was subject to different rules than her predecessors. She broke those rules.


Link to that claim?--LOL

The evolving standards are in Appendix A of the Inspector General's report broken down by the years the different people were Secretary of State. You will have to google it as when I do it opens a pdf I cannot link directly to.
 
Powell didn't have a personal server.......idjit!


He used AOL---America online, and actually sent Hillary Clinton an email that stated the below: Now I don't know who was more prudent, & thoughtful of security measures. A Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that had a Senior IT staffer working at the State Department who set up and maintained her server, or someone that just had a personal AOL email account that was receiving information from State Department staffers.-do you--LOL? Which one would you prefer?

Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former 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." Colin Powell Says Hillary Clinton's 'People Have Been Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him

You better dam well hope that Democrats don't take over the House in 2016--because you'll be up to your email eyeballs in taxpayer paid for investigations from here to eternity over Colin Powell and Condi Rice's use of personal email accounts--while they were Secretary's of State.
Is that the job creation program Hillary was talking about?
Money better spent on more pressing needs of our citizens.......
 
The OP has already been PROVEN false.


Norhing to see here, just more denying, lying, and justifying.
 
Powell didn't have a personal server.......idjit!


He used AOL---America online, and actually sent Hillary Clinton an email that stated the below: Now I don't know who was more prudent, & thoughtful of security measures. A Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that had a Senior IT staffer working at the State Department who set up and maintained her server, or someone that just had a personal AOL email account that was receiving information from State Department staffers.-do you--LOL? Which one would you prefer?

Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former 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." Colin Powell Says Hillary Clinton's 'People Have Been Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him

You better dam well hope that Democrats don't take over the House in 2016--because you'll be up to your email eyeballs in taxpayer paid for investigations from here to eternity over Colin Powell and Condi Rice's use of personal email accounts--while they were Secretary's of State.

They had personal email accounts but did not conduct business on them. There were no requests by any of our law enforcement agencies to turn over any emails. There were no deliberate erasing of emails either.

Apples and oranges, but a typical leftist strategy.
 
Hillary should be arrested and sent to prison for the rest of her life or get the death penalty.

The problem for the state is that she is either severely brain damaged and/or faking severe brain damage. Juries tend to have sympathy for elderly felons who lack mental faculties, so it may be very difficult for prosecutors to get the death penalty for treason. And the krooked kunt's lawyers may be able to drag the trial on past her natural lifespan anyways.
 
Powell didn't have a personal server.......idjit!


He used AOL---America online, and actually sent Hillary Clinton an email that stated the below: Now I don't know who was more prudent, & thoughtful of security measures. A Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that had a Senior IT staffer working at the State Department who set up and maintained her server, or someone that just had a personal AOL email account that was receiving information from State Department staffers.-do you--LOL? Which one would you prefer?

Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former 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." Colin Powell Says Hillary Clinton's 'People Have Been Trying to Pin' Email Scandal on Him

You better dam well hope that Democrats don't take over the House in 2016--because you'll be up to your email eyeballs in taxpayer paid for investigations from here to eternity over Colin Powell and Condi Rice's use of personal email accounts--while they were Secretary's of State.

They had personal email accounts but did not conduct business on them. There were no requests by any of our law enforcement agencies to turn over any emails. There were no deliberate erasing of emails either.

Apples and oranges, but a typical leftist strategy.

The Mad-Libs are going insane trying to protect Hillary. Typical of the Mad-Libs to try and find someone who violated the law as if that makes Hillary's violation less damaging.
 
The OP has already been PROVEN false.


Norhing to see here, just more denying, lying, and justifying.

The Mad-Libs will keep repeating this fairy tale until it at least becomes true in their mind.
 
"The truth about the last two Republican secretaries of state has finally come out: Colin Powell and aides to Condoleezza Rice trafficked in classified information on their personal email accounts. This is an enormous scandal!

Oh, wait. No, it’s not.


This news involving Powell and Rice is meaningless except that it sets up a rational conversation (finally) about the Hillary Clinton bogus “email-gate” imbroglio. Perhaps the partisans on each side will now be more willing to listen to the facts. From the beginning, the “scandal” about Clinton using a personal email account when she was secretary of state—including the finding that a few documents on it were retroactively deemed classified—has been a big nothing-burger perpetuated for partisan purposes, with reports spooned out by Republicans attempting to deceive or acting out of ignorance. Conservative commentators have raged, presidential candidates have fallen over themselves in apoplectic babbling, and some politicians have proclaimed that Clinton should be in jail for mishandling classified information. The nonsense has been never-ending, and attempts to cut through the fog of duplicity have been fruitless.

But Powell and Rice’s aides did nothing wrong. (I’m going to focus on them so that partisans who say Clinton broke the law have to attack respected Republicans first.) Start with this: Powell and Rice, like all modern secretaries of state, each had at least two email accounts—one personal and the other for communications designated as highly classified at the time of their creation . For classified information, both of them—and their aides with appropriate clearance—had a sensitive compartmented information facility, or what is known in intelligence circles as a SCIF. Most senior officials who deal with classified information have a SCIF in their offices and their homes.

Then there is the issue of servers. Where did Powell and Rice’s staff have their servers? Who knows, and who cares? Maybe they were private with special security and no public access. Or maybe they were just an AOL server. Whichever it was, they would be just as open to hacking as the State Department servers. In fact, the State Department general email system has been hacked multiple times, with terabytes of information improperly downloaded in 2006 alone. There has been no indication that the email accounts of either Powell or Rice’s staff were compromised.

Powell may have made one mistake in all this. He has said he never backed up his emails or printed them out; that was necessary to comply with some of the preservation rules detailed in the Federal Register. Of course, that doesn’t mean they can’t be recovered, since the FOIA staff is now reviewing his emails.

The bottom line: Democrats may try to turn the revelations about the email accounts used by Powell and Rice’s staff into a scandal. They may release press statements condemning the former secretaries of state; they may call for scores of unnecessary congressional hearings; they may go to the press and confidently proclaim that crimes were committed by these honorable Republicans. But it would all be lies. Powell and Rice did nothing wrong. This could be considered a scandal only by ignorant or lying partisans.

So there is no Powell or Rice email scandal. And no doubt, that will infuriate the Republicans who are trying so hard to trick people into believing Clinton committed a crime by doing the exact same thing as her predecessors.
The shocking truth: Colin Powell’s emails don’t matter

There's much more detailed information in the article regarding classified information. But it's clear MANY on this board are suffering from OCDD (obsessive Clinton derangement disorder) so it may be very difficult for some to get through it all. Others may have to read it 5 or 6 times to get it to sink in.

We can only hope that once Democrats take over the house they keep their integrity level high--and don't drag us through more email investigations into Colin Powell & Condi Rice emails.

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Typical example of regressives telling that same lie over and over hoping some one will believe them.
 
It is sad how Obama and the Clintons have turned this nation into a lawless, corrup, 3rd world banana republic.
 
Hasn't this very claim been debunked in numerous strings?

Nobody has done what Hillary Clinton did! Not Condi Rice...not Colin Powell! She set up private servers in her home to secretly conduct State Department business...preventing anyone from overseeing what it was she was doing. Why? Because she was running the State Department as "pay to play" cash machine...pumping millions into the Clinton Foundation to help pay for for her political machine in return for political favors.
 

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