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Fri Jul 31, 2015, 11:27 PM Jul 2015

Republican Colin Powell Deals Death Blow to Hillary Clinton Email Scandal [View all]

On ABC’s This Week, former Sec. of State Colin Powell admitted that he used a private email account for public business. Powell’s explanation of why he used a private email account amounted to a death blow for Republicans who are trying to build a scandal out of Hillary Clinton’s emails....

Powell’s description of his own emails as pretty benign matches up with Rep. Adam Schiff’s description of the Hillary Clinton emails that the Benghazi committee has read. According to Sen. Chuck Schumer, Clinton’s private email system was based on the system that Powell used.

The technology available in most federal agencies is woefully outdated. It isn’t surprising that appointees would use technology that is available in the private sector because it is better. Powell’s emails from his personal account went into the State Department system because they were addressed to employees in State. The same is the case with the Clinton emails. Powell’s discussion of his own experience with his personal email account adds credibility to the claim that there is nothing to see here.

If Hillary Clinton broke the law, as some Republicans are claiming, then Colin Powell also broke the law.

The more that is revealed about the use of private email, the more it looks like Republicans are trying to make something out of nothing. It has been a bad day for the Republican Clinton email scandal, and it is only going to get worse for the Republican Party as they continue to go down what looks like a dead end.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/08/republican-colin-powell-deals-death-blow-hillary-clinton-email-scandal.html via Politics USA

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Good! villager Jul 2015 #1
Not sure if it will, Kath1 Jul 2015 #2
It won't nxylas Aug 2015 #16
Who cares about the backwash? nt Walk away Aug 2015 #23
No, he's already said all this months ago. It had no effect then either. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2015 #20
Won't stop the GOP or Fox News Tommy2Tone Jul 2015 #3
Whut woah. sheshe2 Jul 2015 #4
Hope this is enough to derail this riderinthestorm Aug 2015 #5
Wasn't Colin Powell wrong about Iraq also? malokvale77 Aug 2015 #6
No Charles de Gaudless Aug 2015 #7
So we can assume... malokvale77 Aug 2015 #10
Well aren't you cute Hekate Aug 2015 #15
No one with knowledge of the law ever claimed he broke the law with his emails. And the law is exactly the same pnwmom Aug 2015 #17
I can't wait until Bernie is down! I'll be the first to kick him all over DU! Walk away Aug 2015 #24
Like all of Congress was....you know, all those folks who "voted for war with Iraq"! George II Aug 2015 #32
He isn't wrong about the law on this. The Rethugs have already investigated and found pnwmom Aug 2015 #9
What does one have to do with the other? ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #22
Please take your comments out of our Group. sheshe2 Aug 2015 #25
K&R. lunamagica Aug 2015 #8
That has been my take all along VanillaRhapsody Aug 2015 #11
what's incredible to me is that people actually buy into this redruddyred Aug 2015 #12
I hope Andrea Mitchell gets the memo soon. ... Hekate Aug 2015 #13
"Death Blow"! Wow! Yeah, republicons aren't the only ones who are trying to make something Cha Aug 2015 #14
Another wild goose chase? 4now Aug 2015 #18
Colin needs to come out now and help end this media non-sense ericson00 Aug 2015 #19
This is not a scandal and does not have any legs Gothmog Aug 2015 #21
I couldn't care less about any silly emails. stone space Aug 2015 #26
Oops...just noticed the group. stone space Aug 2015 #27
Hey stone space sheshe2 Aug 2015 #28
Thanks, sheshe. stone space Aug 2015 #30
Hey, I would imagine a few of us have done that by accident. calimary Aug 2015 #31
Not really. It's the repubs who are mostly pushing this shite. Since Powell did it before it Cha Aug 2015 #29
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