Colin Powell to make statement saying he also used his private email while in office

[kpete]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell to make statement saying he also used his private email while in office, a time when the State Department's computer system was famously obsolete
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/united-states-department-of-state/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Intersting...... nt

[LittleBlue]

2. I would never consider Powell for office

He is, after all, a famous liar

[uponit7771]

3. HILLARY DID IT!! Makes it 12304j12pntd's times worse!!! /sarcasm <--- cause...

...there's so much Hillary hate this is needed around here

[BlueCaliDem]

4. ^^^This x 1000^^^ eom

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. Nope, exactly as bad.

No better no worse than all of these other Republicans. Problem is, we'd actually prefer Democrats to be 'better' than Republicans. We'd like to RAISE the bar, not just match those incompetents.

[uponit7771]

11. Nah, it's worse... cause Hillary did it and I'm not refering to republicans I'm refferring to HIllar

...FUD here on DU

DU reeks of FUD

[FSogol]

9. LOL.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. So why did none of these Secretaries of State actually, you know, try to bring systems up to date?

Didn't they think it might be a wee bit important? Maybe make a big stink in front of Congress about how crappy their systems were and how they needed funds to do major upgrades?

[uponit7771]

10. During Benghazi I learned how underfunded they are and GOP cuts budget at every turn

[Autumn]

6. Will he have power point documentation? Cool drawings and stuff?

The most trustworthy person ever!!!!!!!

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Wow. Never thought I'd see the day that a Republican would come out in defense of a Democrat -

especially one who might run for President.

I think Secretary Powell has gotten wise in his old age.

[rhett o rick]

14. Conservatives stick up for each other. He is grateful as she helped him sell the Iraq War. nm

[DanTex]

16. He supported Obama too.

[BlueCaliDem]

17. That's right! I'd forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder, DanTex. eom

[TwilightGardener]

12. Question: Did Hillary's entire staff use clintonemail.com, or just her, personally?

55,000 emails is a lot--she'd have time to do nothing else, if that was just her, typing away. I would think her staff did most correspondence. Did her chief of staff have a .gov email, for example? Is there an Office of Secretary of State .gov organizational address on which business got done?

[DonViejo]

13. Appearing directly beneath the above news about Colin Powell is....

this alert:

HILLARY CLINTON

4h

Clinton spokesperson: 'Like Secretaries of State before her, she used her own email account when engaging with any Department officials. For government business, she emailed them on their Department accounts, with every expectation they would be retained. When the Department asked former Secretaries last year for help ensuring their emails were in fact retained, we immediately said yes' - statement

same link as in OP

[Baitball Blogger]

15. I think we are going to discover that this is far more common for that time than

we realized.

There will be a difference in what was "normal" in the pre whistle-blower era, and what we did after the whistle blowers leaked information. I don't think we all understood just how invasive these data collection were. And we certainly didn't have a technical fix to respond to it.