colin powel used personal e-mail account

[DesertFlower]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he doesn’t have any emails to turn over to the State Department.

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Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Powell responded to revelations that he used a personal email account, rather than a government one, when he was in charge of the State Department. Questions about his email use arose last week when it was disclosed that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a personal email account during her tenure.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-email-state-department-115870.html#ixzz3jOl7SV5Z

[JoePhilly]

1. Yea butt ..

... he has a Republican penis, so it's ok.

[cali]

4. not even a little ok. And the "he/she did it too" defense is just pathetix

[JoePhilly]

8. Clearly it was ok.

No info was leaked by Powell and no one cares.

No info was leaked by Clinton, and it a BFD.

It's another scandal in which nothing actually happened.

[yeoman6987]

51. If he were running for president it wouldn't be ok

[HappyPlace]

2. Was it hosted on a personal server in his private home?

That detail matters.

[BooScout]

10. Really?

Nearly 90 White House staffers in the Bush administration used private emails supplied by the RNC....of course the press seldom mentions that little fact these days.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. and it was and still is a big issue

and here it was not small either.

[jwirr]

30. And that little fact is not a good example as God only knows what they

did with their private email accounts. No one has even looked into it have they?

The press is not going to attack their handlers.

[cherokeeprogressive]

36. Were they hosted on personal servers in their private homes?

Or did you simply choose to ignore that question?

[HappyPlace]

56. It doesn't matter because George Bush white house staffers did it too!

So there. They're just like little secretaries of state and if they did it why are we picking on Hillary, huh?

I like this graphic by the way, it's a bit of fun in the candidate.

[cherokeeprogressive]

57. Tell you what... some of the worst whoopin's I got as a child were when I pointed at my Sister

and said "She did it too!".

[HereSince1628]

50. I'm no happier with Powell placing government communications in "The Cloud"

I can't speak for others, but I'm not sure having a personal server in a garage or upstairs bathroom would be worse than putting government communications onto borrowed server capacity in an unknown country.

Might any special problems exist if that cloud space was in a GRU server farm in Moscow, or Pyongyang?

[HappyPlace]

52. Definitely not good, either one.

The difference is that having your own server on your own private property offers an opportunity to completely destroy it, not something that can be done in the cloud.

From a public's right to know perspective, the cloud is preferred.

[uponit7771]

55. No it doesn't

[tularetom]

3. When he runs for president, I'm sure it will be brought up

Possibly he will have a better story than Hillary.

[HassleCat]

5. Who cares?

Since he went on TV and lied out his butt about WMD, I have tried to ignore him.

[retrowire]

6. There is a difference between a private account and a private server n/t

[BooScout]

12. Condi Rice had a private server....

...of course she says she rarely used it. We all trust her now don't we.

[retrowire]

13. I've no opinion on Condoleeza. n/t

[frylock]

17. Then don't vote for her.

[retrowire]

23. ...? Ok? n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. You sure about that?

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/condoleezza-rice-emails-state-department-115941.html

[leftofcool]

20. Private servers are more secure.

Note that Hillary's emails did not go out to wikileaks. My husband uses a private server for some government business through his company and there is no way it can be hacked. Mine on the other hand is not private and hackers try to get to me on a weekly basis.

[KoKo]

31. Her e-mails on Private Server were discovered by Hackers..

A Hacker named "Guccifer" released e-mails discussing Libya written by Sid Blumenthal to Hillary a couple of years ago. The Bengazi Committee investigated and that's how the Private Server was discovered.

The e-mails were printed in News Media at the time. It was a big deal.. So, if her server was hacked by one hacker then it was vulnerable to other hackers. That's why the E-Mail issue hasn't died.

[BooScout]

34. soooo BENGHAZI is a big deal then?

Watch FAUX news much?

[KoKo]

42. No...Sid Blumenthal's Hacked E-Mail correspondence was a Big Deal

Since Obama had banned Hillary from allowing Sid to serve in the State Department because of his past behavior.

For those of us who followed Sid through his adventures years before...it WAS a big deal and that Hillary had a Private Server in her home Chappaqua for her E-Mail correspondence which Sid communicated with her on. The hacking was what led to Hillary's Private Server being discovered.

pffft on Benghazi. I was always more concerned that Libya was invaded on her watch. If Libya hadn't been invaded there wouldn't have been a Benghazi but the Repub/NeoCon War Machine wanted it. So...since Libya is a mess they attack Hillary blaming Benghazi on her to cover their own mistakes in promoting policies that led to the invasion.

[cherokeeprogressive]

41. "no way it can be hacked"

[GitRDun]

27. private accounts are stored on servers outside of govt control

gmail, yahoo, all have servers that store our emails.

IMO private email accounts are less secure.

[BooScout]

39. tell that to wiki leaks

[GitRDun]

40. Huh?

[leftofcool]

47. No.

Private servers do not use gmail, yahoo or any other free email service.

[GitRDun]

48. ugh, not what I said

I said using private account (gmail, yahoo) is less secure because servers re NOT private.

[still_one]

7. So did Jeb Bush, Jindal, Perry, and a lot of other politicians for personal use. Doesn't make it

right, which is why in 2014 and 2015 they have setup specific policies

[JoePhilly]

11. What makes it wrong ...

... is Hillary did it.

No info lost. None leaked. Nothing happened.

But Hillary "did it" so it must be bad.

Shame Snowden didn't get it all and leak it.

Folks would want a parade in his honor.

[leftofcool]

21. + one gadzillion

[ericson00]

22. make that +one gadzillion times two

[mcar]

24. How many times can I rec this?

[Purveyor]

29. You don't know if info was lost, you don't know if info was leaked nor do you know that Snowden

didn't in fact 'get it all'.

IF it was captured by Snowden/foreign intel, why would they hurry to release it when it could most certainly come in handy should she, in the unlikely event, become POTUS.

[KoKo]

33. I have two personal E-Mail Accounts. But, I don't have a server in my home

run by a Private Company. And, I'm not the SOS who has no business doing Personal State Department Business (as a Government Employee) stored on a server in her home in Chappaqua NY and run by a Private Company that (as far as we know) was not cleared for security by the Government that pays her.

[Reter]

35. None of those three had access to anything nearly as classified as Clinton did

SoS's know all the juicy things that governors don't.

[Thor_MN]

9. So he claims he has no clue where they are.

He doesn't know if his account was secure or not and making the same claim, that there was no secure info in the emails, if he had any fucking clue where they were. Given his WMD puppet show performance, I'm not surprised.

Seems if things were not biased, we should spend a couple million dollars finding out what he was doing.

[Bjorn Against]

14. Colin Powell was also a member of the most corrupt administration in history

I think we may want to hold people to a bit higher standard than what we saw from the Bush Administration.

[ibegurpard]

15. Tell it to the FBI

Not me.

[frylock]

16. It's settled. He won't get my vote for president.

[Motown_Johnny]

18. Did he delete half of the server without any oversight?

If not, then these things are not really comparable....are they?

[Autumn]

19. He's not running for president.

[kacekwl]

25. So it's OK as long as you

don't run for president ?

[Autumn]

28. He's a republican and what he does is irrelevant to me in terms of my vote.

Hillary is running for the nomination in the Democratic party what she does matters to me.

[Bonobo]

32. Having also shown horrible judgment wrt that and the Iraq War in the same way as Hillary at least

he has the good sense to know his political boat has way too many holes in it.

The sinking HSS Hillary will take down Dem hopes for 4 or 8 years I am afraid.

[delrem]

44. It appears that it's very easy to sell the

idea that if Republicans do it, then it's justified, to a fairly large and homogeneous faction on DU.

[DesertFlower]

45. i'm not trying to defend her. i'm

supporting bernie. just trying to be fair. didn't realize till tonight that hillary had the e-mail server in her home. i think she has some explaining to do.

i don't want a republican to be president. if hillary is the nominee she'll get my vote.

[delrem]

43. I too take my lead from Republicans.

Esp. honest brokers like condoleezza rice "But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." and Colin Powell, "Saddam Hussein could have produced 25,000 liters (of anthrax)".
So naturally I also take my lead from Hillary Clinton "We came. We saw. He died. (hahaha)".

Because these are all so similar, they are true leaders, the creme de la creme.

[TheKentuckian]

49. Are you trying to argue it is best practice for officials to act as their own information gatekeeper

Where the fuck was all the opposition to transparency and oversight for officials when we not that long ago tightened up all these shifty ass practices?

Is Colin Powell supposed to be some model of good governance and accountability to the public?

What type or banana republic are we aspiring to here?

I can't help it is also the same friends and fans of the dragnet surveillance state for us but literally demanding lack of accountability and oversight for supposed to be public servants either.

Sorry, I oppose your anti democratic paradigm. Why the fuck would folks demand to be subjects? That is what such an arrangement works out to mean.
To not even be able to admit that maybe this wasn't the best idea ever is illustrative of a car with no breaks, the wagons are on full auto circle) and drivers nor passengers have much in the way of give a damn about the right thing.

[DesertFlower]

53. i wasn't trying to argue anything. i was just

trying to be fair to hillary.

how dare you say i'm anti democratic. i've been a democrat my entire life. i'm 74 years old.

there's no reason to get nasty and use foul language.

[TheKentuckian]

58. If you don't see how the push for zero oversight of officials while tolerating and even

encouraging and supporting dragnet surveillance doesn't short circuit any real self governance.

[Cha]

54. gopropaganda machine cares nothing about him. It's Hillary they want to bring down with EGhazi!

[Vinca]

59. Well . . . we know how poor Colin Powell's judgement was so maybe . . .

it's not in Hillary's best interest to say "but he did it, too."