Throughout the email scandal, Hillary Clinton has been saying that fellow former Secretary of State Colin Powell did the same things she did to excuse her actions.
Now we learn that Clinton tried to throw Powell under the bus when she told the FBI that he was the one who told her to use a personal email system. The New York Times reported on a conversation held between the former secretaries of state:
“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.”
Mr. Conason continued, “Saying that his use of personal email had been transformative for the department,” Mr. Powell “thus confirmed a decision she had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages.”
But when Powell heard about this he ripped into Hillary for using him as a scapegoat for her own email scandal, according to Page Six.
But Powell, who had said last week in a statement that he had no recollection of the conversation, told Page Six at Saturday’s Apollo in the Hamptons event, “The truth is she was using it (her personal email) for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did [during my term as Secretary of State].
“Her people have been trying to pin it on me.”
When asked why Clinton’s team were attempting to blame him, he responded, “Why do you think?”
Despite appearing angered by the situation, he added, “It doesn’t bother me. It’s okay, I’m free.”
He’s free, but Hillary should not be.
In 3 simple steps, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post explains the major differences between what Clinton and Powell did.
Let me count the ways in which the Clinton email setup ≠ the Powell email setup:
1. Clinton exclusively used a private email account to conduct State Department business. Powell did not.
2. Clinton had a private email server, located at her house. Powell did not.
3. The rules governing electronic communication changed considerably — and got more strict — between Powell’s time in office and Clinton’s.
…For whatever reason — and despite the fact that Clinton has said on several occasions that she knows she made a mistake — she seems incapable of accepting that responsibility and moving on. No secretary of state — up to and including Colin Powell — handled their email setup like Clinton. That’s a fact.
Hillary has been grasping at straws to try to explain away her misdeeds and is willing to take down anyone else with her – it’s about time she’s called out on it.
What do you think – Does Colin Powell have a right to be angry? Sound off in the comments about this story!
The MO of the Clinton’s has always been when they are in serious trouble they, DENY, LIE, BLAME OTHERS, DESTROY EVIDENCE, LAUGH IT OFF THEN BLISSFULLY WALK AWAY AND YOU PEOPLE DEAL WITH IT. THE CLINTON’S ARE A DISGRACE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.. IF HILLARY IS ELECTED, THEY WILL BECOME GAZILLIONAIRES BY THEIR WORLDLY WHEELING AND DEALING. SHE JUST CANNOT BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. 8/23/16
HUMA ABEDIN AND CHERYL MILLS SHOULD BE VERY WORRIED – AS THOSE CLOSEST TO THE CLINTONS ALWAYS END UP TAKING THE FALL FOR THEM. HILLARY WILL MOST LIKELY SAY, ” I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT, I DIDN’T HANDLE THAT” – SO HUMA AND CHERYL WATCH OUT. 8/23/16
Remember China-gate from 1996? Then President Bill Clinton authorized the sale of sensitive US technology to China and Chinese money was donated to his re-election campaign!
Was Hillary playing the same game, selling US secrets delivered via a private server with weaker security than the Ashley Madison website in exchange for “donations” to her “charitable” foundation?
It is time to look past the server itself to what may be the biggest spy scandal in US history!
More at http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hillarythespy.php
So, how many of the emails on Clinton’s private server did Edward Snowden compromise?
I used to have a lot of respect for that man until he changed parties for racial reasons. That is when I saw him for who he really was.
I don’t think he has any right to be mad. He associated himself with the Republican Party until Obama got in there. He then switched parties and has no right to blame anyone but himself. Good riddance Powell, you are getting what you ask for, the Democratic Party.
i agree. i also liked him a lot till he decided to stab bush in the back & vote 4 obama.esp 4 what you said, racial reasons. i thought he was better than that. i am glad he isn’t defending clinton tho!
The Republican party threw him under the bus by telling him lies and having him repeat them to the American people. He supported Obama because he was the better candidate. He switched parties just like your guy Trump switched parties.
She is a liar and everyone knows it and they still let her get away with it. Colon Powell should be pissed as hell and actually he should her for defamation of Character and lying and false accusations. She need to be in jail and anyone that votes for her should go to. I cannot understand how her and Obama have got a way with so much crap. Just think if she gets elected then more likely Obama will end up as a supreme justice. Does anyone understand what that would mean to our constitution. You could just about rip it up because that is exactly what he would try to do. Sad day in America if she were to win. God Bless America and may his will be done. Semper i
Clinton lied yet again. Even Comey said that Powell and Rice NEVER used private emails for office work.
Yet you have suckups who will vote for her anyway
it’s all rigged..the system; can’t believe people i talk with or who read this and ignore what is going on in our government, it’s like they just move on. plus… when you talk with most people, they just say they can’t stand Trump…they don’t want to talk about it..any of it and you know they are the ones that will just blindly go and vote for hc….i blame the people as much as our leaders. good thing the Lord God is Sovereign and has all things in His hands.
REALITY CHECK?!?!…….Collin Powel is above the law just as Hillary is. He could be mad justifiably. But why? He is part of the “ABOVE THE LAW CLUB” and is not held to the same standards as of the “non-members” ……How could he get mad? Really??? From affirmative action style military promotions, political promotions based on race, benefitting quite well under the Republicans for a long stretch and then endorsing a muslin communist for US president TWICE, because the candidate was black. Powell is rapped up completely in a bunch of unethical, and very self serving scandal…..The American people have had to endure so much BS from this guy…..We as Americans should be mad at HIM………..I am……….He has no credibility, and nothing really to whine about………He belongs with Hillary
She lied again and Powell chose to be a dem so now he has to live with it.
This is a 4 decades old excuse the clinton-crime-family have relied on . . . “the dog ate my research paper”, except, in this case, that paper was State Secrets being compromised.
If Congress had the guts and AG Lynch had the moral authority, Treason would be the most appropriate charge . . . . . but, even then, her Lemming would still vote for her . . . go figure.