First issue: Please provide the evidence that Colin Powell or those associated with SoS Rice had a server at home. Haven't heard that they did. Heard it was just private email use.
There are laws about possession of classified material. If one has a server at home, that's possession.
Secondly, if you have a server in your home, it is not set up like the secure government servers designed for securing access to classified information - including the data pipeline attaching it to the network. That wasn't in place in Hillary's home.
Was it is place for Powell or Rice private email account? We don't know yet.
Thirdly, were any of the emails with Powell or Rice exchanges with the president? Not in the reports I've heard. But 18 of Hillary's were. Clinton-Obama emails are not being released because they are at the very least confidential - for obvious reasons. What is worse is that in those emails headers, the path for how the data traveled is stored. Now maybe the White House does some stuff at the start to strip some of that out but at some point, as the data travels to other routers, those routers identify the path the data took. That could reveal where the president is physically - which the secret service wouldn't like. And it may identify nodes of where hackers could sit and try to pick off secure information/White House network or break in to hack. Tell the class that the FBI were concerned with that when they spoke with Powell and Rice. There was no discussion of emails with the president with them in the article.
Fourth, emails with foreign countries can be "born classified". Convince us that never happened in communications with the SoS during Hillary's four years. You can't. It's absurd. So she is BSing the American people tonight trying to hide behind Powell and Rice cherry picked examples where the email was classified after the fact - probably leaked by a Clinton supporter. Powell and Rice did not set up servers at home to store "born classified" material - material not classified after the fact like Powell and Rice.
Very different situations.
Hillary deceived the American people cherry picking the example she did. She's in a lot more trouble that Powell and Rice. Whether they indict her remains to be seen. But the question was something to the effect of "could this hurt Hillary in the election?" Hillary BSed. The Kochs will be paying for ads to hammer Hillary on this. The GOP will be howling for an indictment, etc. This circus could go on beyond November because they still have the 30,000 deleted "private" emails that got recovered to crawl though - which have also been sued for under the FOIA - so that any deleted emails the FBI says the State Department should have will be made public - and the press, GOP and others will howl for obstruction of justice.
Hillary also signed a non-disclosure agreement that prtesents other legal problems for her if they want to go after her.
Hillary told the American people "no problem". I say it's just another lie. There's very,very likely more trouble on the horizon.
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