Clinton, Powell , private email , private server

COLIN POWELL DISPUTES HILLARY'S ACCOUNT

HILLARY AND SURROGATES JUST KEEP ON SPINNING

The Clinton campaign's attempt to confuse the voters by equating private email accounts with private servers took a hit from Colin Powell, an Obama and Clinton supporter, who finally had enough of the Clinton campaign using him as cover. Clinton has been repeating to anyone who would listen that what she did with her private server was the same as what Colin Powell did as Secretary of State. She went as far as to say that Powell advised her to do this. This is another lie by Clinton to try to cover up what she did with her private server. Powell finally responded that he had no such conversation with her. If she is smart she will drop the whole thing right now, she really does not have any credibility left on this matter.

All federal government appointees may use private email accounts, AOL, Verizon etc. for their personal email, this is the same email that we all have, they are allowed to use this for emails of a personal type with family, friends and non-governmental business. These servers will retain these emails for a very long time even after being deleted on your computer. Colin Powell had a private email account that he used for these matters. He used the government servers for government business.

All federal government appointees are to use government email accounts for government business. This for two reasons, one is they are a high security server that is constantly upgraded and monitored.  Also all communications are to be preserved for historical records and to provide access for freedom of information requests in the future. 

Hillary Clinton did not use either of these types of servers. She purchased her own server which was housed either in her home or in a remote location in Colorado. Actually according FBI director Comey's testimony, she had as many as 4 different private servers, which were periodically destroyed and replaced with a new server. The fact alone that she had intentionally bypassed the requirements of the freedom of information act, and exposed top secret and other confidential information to be compromised should be enough to prosecute her, but that will never happen under the Obama administration because they must have known about this arrangement. In 2014, two years after she left the state department, she printed out 50,000 emails, and erased every thing else on this server. This would apply to the last remaining server, the earlier servers where never mentioned by anyone.

The whole matter is further complicated by the fact that the Clinton foundation has received many millions of dollars of contributions from foreign governments, especially middle east governments, at the same time as she was secretary of state. These contributions were often accompanied by large speaking fees to Bill Clinton by these same governments. While there are indications that indicate favorable treatment to some of these donors by the state department, there has not been solid proof linking these transactions. Some believe that this was the primary reason for the private email server.

But make no mistake, the Clinton campaign's strategy has been to blur the difference between a private email account and a private server. They have been aided by a coordinated effort by their surrogates and media to minimize the importance of the use of these private servers.