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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:41 PM Mar 2015

Colin Powell Also Used Personal Email While Serving As Secretary Of State, Aide Confirms

Following Monday's New York Times report that Hillary Clinton may have violated federal records laws by using a personal email account for all of her work messages while serving as the U.S. secretary of state, an aide to Colin Powell said the Republican also used personal email for work while serving in the same position.

"He was not aware of any restrictions nor does he recall being made aware of any over the four years he served at State," the aide said in a statement sent to Politico. "He sent emails to his staff generally via their State Department email addresses. These emails should be on the State Department computers. He might have occasionally used personal email addresses, as he did when emailing to family and friends."

Powell served as secretary of state from 2001 to 2005 under former President George W. Bush, while Clinton served under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. If she decides to run for the Democrats' 2016 presidential nomination, Clinton is widely expected to be the front-runner.

The statement from Powell's office comes after Democrats came to Clinton's defense, saying she is not the first secretary of state to conduct business over a non-government email account.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/colin-powell-emails-hillary-clinton_n_6792716.html
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Colin Powell Also Used Personal Email While Serving As Secretary Of State, Aide Confirms (Original Post) Triana Mar 2015 OP
Colin will get a pass because he is a repuke whore Skittles Mar 2015 #1
Get a pass from whom? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #9
where exactly did I say it was right for anyone? Skittles Mar 2015 #11
Ah, ok, then what exactly does it imply Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #12
exactly that Skittles Mar 2015 #13
Do you really care what 'Beghazi assholes' think? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #16
omg Skittles Mar 2015 #17
Just as well. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #18
You mean the guy who lied to the UN to justify the Iraq attaq? tularetom Mar 2015 #2
That only matters in as much as Powell worked under the same law, regulation, rules, policy etc. HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #3
Your 2)... longship Mar 2015 #5
LOL. Nice try HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #6
In other words... Basically a non-response response. longship Mar 2015 #7
No, use your head. When you want to show a generality HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #8
Colin Powell. Hell of a fucking guy Autumn Mar 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Mar 2015 #10
The point would be practice at the State Department BainsBane Mar 2015 #14
Of course. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #15

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
9. Get a pass from whom?
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:18 PM
Mar 2015

What's with all the 'Well, the other kids did it too!' posts lately.

People's moms never say to them 'If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?'

Somebody else doing something boneheaded and wrong isn't any kind of excuse for another person also doing something boneheaded and wrong.

It was wrong for Powell, if Rice did it, it was wrong for Rice, and it was wrong for Hillary.

All three failed at addressing a serious problem with State Department IT if indeed it sucked so bad they felt they had to run off their own personal servers. You don't ignore the problems people under you are having and just fix things for yourself. That's really crappy management.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
12. Ah, ok, then what exactly does it imply
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:41 PM
Mar 2015

When you say SoS A (Powell) will get a pass, without mentioning SoS B? (Clinton) Are you suggesting that SoS B should get a pass too? Or were you just complaining in general that people aren't being 'fair' to SoS B?

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
18. Just as well.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:48 PM
Mar 2015

If you really do care what the nutcases think, we weren't going to be able to have any sort of sensible discussion anyway.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
3. That only matters in as much as Powell worked under the same law, regulation, rules, policy etc.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:50 PM
Mar 2015

Things sometimes change, but they don't always change

What seems pretty clear is that

1) using a private email system isn't illegal under the rules HRC worked.

2) having a private server to handle ALL your government email is pretty unusual.


We are left looking at nothing legally wrong but something that seems exceptionally bizarre.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Your 2)...
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:28 PM
Mar 2015

Is not unusual. I myself have run my own e-mail server (plus Web server, plus hosted my own domain name server and a VOIP server). And I was just one guy.

As I understand things, Foggy Bottom has been a bit behind the times technologically for years. For Christ sakes, they still use Microsoft Exchange servers, which means the use Microsoft Internet servers!!!! Surely delusional people making tech decisions there.

No wonder HRC put her own e-mail server up. I don't blame her. It was certainly more secure than Exchange and from what I understand from recent posts here, more reliable and efficient. Which is undoubtedly why she did it.

So everybody stop carping about this. It is nothing at all.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
8. No, use your head. When you want to show a generality
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:51 PM
Mar 2015

you don't want to use -ONE- specific unrelated instance.

NAME other cabinet secretaries who kept a private server in their residence to handle their agency related email

Go ahead. The world awaits your answer.

Autumn

(44,743 posts)
4. Colin Powell. Hell of a fucking guy
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 08:52 PM
Mar 2015

Just look at Iraq. If this is where we are aiming that's a pretty low bar. He has never had a republican sniffing in his business. Come to think if it, not even a democrat,

Response to Triana (Original post)

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
15. Of course.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 10:46 PM
Mar 2015

Remember the centrist Dem mantra - 'We're somewhat better than the other guys on some issues'.

So saying 'Look! They do it too!' is a perfect excuse for all sorts of bad behaviour. Remember, you only have to be better on one issue than your opponent, and not any worse on every other one to be 'worth electing' under the logic constantly being served up, because we're constantly told we have only two choices: elect centrists, or elect Republicans.

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