This attempt by the board's Left Wing Chorus to mitigate what Clinton did by saying others did it before her is laughable! Colin Powell did have a private e-mail account but he did not use that private e-mail account to conduct the vast majority of his State Department electronic communications as Hillary Clinton did. He also didn't hide the fact that he had a private e-mail account...nor did he deliberately erase 50,000 e-mails from that account when he knew that Congress wanted to review them...as Hillary Clinton did.
Uh, maybe you need to do some research before you spout off on these kinds of things.
Powell says he doesn't have any of his State emails
Republican Colin Powell Deals a Death Blow to Hillary Clinton Email Scandal
I know this is tough for you on the Left...but Hillary deliberately broke the law...got found out...and then deliberately destroyed evidence to protect her political future. That isn't even in doubt at this point. It happened.
She did the exact same thing Colin Powell, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney did. and you were totally fine with them doing it.
Do I really have to "prove" that Lois Lerner deliberately used private e-mail accounts, even going so far as using alias's to communicate in secret with people in the Obama Administration? That isn't in doubt at this point either. It happened.
Do I really have to prove you are a Lizard Man from Alpha Centauri? You deliberately stole the skin from a human being and are impersonating him. This isn't in doubt at this point either. It happened.
That's a load of crap.. The State Dept was in the same boat the FBI was on 9/11.. They still had rolodexes, file cabinets, teletypes, and rotary phones. When Colin Powell was there they set up a State Dept system. Which would have complied with security infrastructure. But if he used a "personal" account -- there is no indication that classified info was involved. There is also no statement that Powell used the private account EXCLUSIVELY for work. When there IS evidence -- we can chat.
And this whole thing in the OP needs some amplification. Folks with Clearances communicate on different levels in different ways. Classified conversations are PART of the deal. Most people think of DOCUMENTS with stamps on them. But COMMUNICATING can be done in a number of accepted ways without ever generating "a classified document".. Both the initiator and receiver VERIFY that they are cleared to have that convo, and then make certain the environment or the channel is secure. This could happen over a phone, at a conference, or even teleconference. There are no MARKINGS on all that communication.
So in the age of portable devices, some MIGHT be secure, Most all are not. You can not pick up a pphone and pass classified info... So ANY conversation that Madame Liar had that CONTAINED classified info never HAD to be marked. An email over an UNSECURE channel is a SERIOUS violation .....
Classified CONVERSATIONS are not "marked". They are conducted by the rules..
2nd misconception.. That since "secure" govt servers have been hacked "thousands of times" -- this violation of Classified handling is nothing.. The definition of "secure" here is being misused. There is a WORLD of difference between the "secure" link that e-commerce sites provide and an approved security link for classified transmission.
The IRS system is secured. The ObamaCare website is secured. Even most of the govt labs like NASA/CDC are secured. But the Secret clearance systems are BEYOND secure. MOST only exist behind locked doors. All obey standards WAAAAAY above a simple "secure" link.. The NSA is involved in specifying and testing the methods used to VERIFY that they can't be hacked by foreign OPs.
Hillary is exploiting the public ignorance of all this. And the press is just as ignorant about the standards and practices. But Hildebeast is seriously pissing off MILLIONS of Americans who know how this stuff works. And her job was to recognize and PROTECT ANY classified info that fell into her lap or blackberry..