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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.
Comey let her off the hook but in so doing he told you that what you have posted is shear BS invented by the Mad-Libs.
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.
Sigh, the AOL account was for his private emails he also received email on a secure government email account. Why do the democrats want black people to take the fall for them?
Comey let her off the hook but in so doing he told you that what you have posted is shear BS invented by the Mad-Libs.
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.
Bullshit--clearly there are more responsible for this than just Hillary Clinton dumbass--yet to date she is the ONLY one that has had to answer for it. Why is that?
Comey let her off the hook but in so doing he told you that what you have posted is shear BS invented by the Mad-Libs.
I heard something on the Mike Gallagher show today that I found pretty interesting: Comey, who spent his life as a public servant, is worth over 14 million dollars today. How does that happen, and what would one do to insure that such a financially successful life continues?
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.
Bullshit--clearly there are more responsible for this than just Hillary Clinton dumbass--yet to date she is the ONLY one that has had to answer for it. Why is that?
Clearly you had no interest in actually having an informed discussion. Had you looked at Appendix A of the report to which you referred, you would see your belief that there was a "they" is unfounded. The report specifically addresses what recent prior Secretaries had done and what the policies were when they were serving.
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.
Bullshit--clearly there are more responsible for this than just Hillary Clinton dumbass--yet to date she is the ONLY one that has had to answer for it. Why is that?
Clearly you had no interest in actually having an informed discussion. Had you looked at Appendix A of the report to which you referred, you would see your belief that there was a "they" is unfounded. The report specifically addresses what recent prior Secretaries had done and what the policies were when they were serving.
Clearly you're not paying attention to Colin Powell's own statement:
" "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
1. He admits he used a simple AOL email account for communications between State Department staffers.
2. He admits that he sent a memo to Hillary Clinton to do the same.
And
3. They both received documents that were later marked CLASSIFIED on these accounts.
Yet, ONLY one person has answered for it. Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton left the Secretary of State position in 2012.
So YOU provide evidence to ME that there was different protocol established between 2009 when she took office and 2012 when Hillary Clinton left office. And if you can't provide a document that was effective during those dates-, (that wasn't effective in 2008 when Colin Powell was Secretary of State,) then your full of shit.
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.
Bullshit--clearly there are more responsible for this than just Hillary Clinton dumbass--yet to date she is the ONLY one that has had to answer for it. Why is that?
Clearly you had no interest in actually having an informed discussion. Had you looked at Appendix A of the report to which you referred, you would see your belief that there was a "they" is unfounded. The report specifically addresses what recent prior Secretaries had done and what the policies were when they were serving.
Clearly you're not paying attention to Colin Powell's own statement:
" "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
1. He admits he used a simple AOL email account for communications between State Department staffers.
2. He admits that he sent a memo to Hillary Clinton to do the same.
And
3. They both received documents that were later marked CLASSIFIED on these accounts.
Yet, ONLY one person has answered for it. Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton left the Secretary of State position in 2012.
So YOU provide evidence to ME that there was different protocol established between 2009 when she took office and 2012 when Hillary Clinton left office. And if you can't provide a document that was effective during those dates-, (that wasn't effective in 2008 when Colin Powell was Secretary of State,) then your full of shit.
What's amazing to me, Oreo is that you're showing yourself to be completely ignorant of the change in regulations that took place from Colin Powell's day until Hillary Clinton was named Secretary of State...regulations regarding emails that Clinton KNEW existed because she had to sign off on them when she took the job...yet you whine about Clinton being the only one to "answer" for breaking the rules!
"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.
You better look up how much Trey Gowdy is worth too--LOL There may be something in there also.
With Clinton exonerated, conspiracy theorists turn on Trey Gowdy
You're shill paychecks making it worth looking like a fool online Mr Pretend Conservative?"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.
Comey let her off the hook but in so doing he told you that what you have posted is shear BS invented by the Mad-Libs.
I heard something on the Mike Gallagher show today that I found pretty interesting: Comey, who spent his life as a public servant, is worth over 14 million dollars today. How does that happen, and what would one do to insure that such a financially successful life continues?
You better look up how much Trey Gowdy is worth too--LOL There may be something in there also.
With Clinton exonerated, conspiracy theorists turn on Trey Gowdy
"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.
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...
"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.
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...
Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.
"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.
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...
Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.
It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?
What's most telling about the Clinton's isn't that they're corrupt...it's that they seem to think the average American is too stupid to care that they're corrupt.
When Hillary explains that the 33,000 deleted emails were "wedding plans" and "recipes"...it's basically her telling the world that she thinks you're an idiot and will buy whatever story she concocts!
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.
"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.
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...
Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.
It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?
You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.
"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.
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed.....and the emails supplied to congress are so redacted they are virtually unreadable............so again...you guys can dodge and weave all you want....she broke the law, she is using the clinton foundation to launder money and she used secret email servers to hide her activity....
She kept a secret, private server that the State Department didn't know about or allowed...
Yes dope, thousands of mails were exchanged with people on the State servers and no one knew about her"secret, private server" even though they knew her email address. This has got to be the dumbest argument I have ever seen.
It's how she got caught! Congressional investigators didn't know a thing about Hillary's two private servers because she had hid their existence from Congress when they requested all communications regarding Benghazi. A pattern soon emerged as investigators looked at State Department communications...there were no official Hillary Clinton emails at all because she was conducting ALL of her State Department business through her two hidden servers and she hadn't turned any of those over to Congress! Once Congressional investigators realized what was going on, they requested Clinton turn over the emails on those two servers which was when Hillary had the 33,000 emails scrubbed from her servers. What's "dumb" is Clinton thinking that she could get away with what she tried to get away with. Under the Freedom of Information Act, government officials are required to be transparent in how they conduct themselves. It's legislation that was passed to prevent corruption. You know...like pay for play schemes?
You are so full of shit dude. State knew from day one. She was SOS. She and her staff corresponded with State staff on State servers probably hundreds of times daily. It was immediately apparent by the address.
All of the correspondence with the State servers also existed within the State servers.
If that's the case, Starsky....then kindly explain why the FBI can't retrieve the 33,000 emails that Clinton had scrubbed?
