Well, lookie here. There's an email from 2009 from Colin Powell to Hillary Clinton, explaining just how he used a "personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line" to communicate State Department business. Wasn't it Colin Powell who just a few weeks ago couldn't recall what he told Clinton about using email? Yes, it was. Now that House Democrats have released the email with his advice, maybe he'll be able to remember more clearly.
Powell's response warns Clinton's about some of the pitfalls of using email, but also appears to indicate that he defied instructions from security experts not to use such devices in State's offices designated to handle classified information and conversations. […]
The email exchange, obtained from State and released by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, also confirms claims in an FBI report last week that Powell warned Clinton that the BlackBerry messages could be considered official government records and made public.
"There is a real danger," Powell wrote, apparently referring to the possibility of the messages becoming public. "Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data."
So there's that. Powell also told Clinton in the email that he used his personal computer "to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels." So, that.
The nothingburger of this email "scandal" just got even more nothingburgerish. But with the beltway media all tied up in trying to figure out whether a gaggle is a press conference and if Clinton has the right facial expression for the given situation, they probably won't notice.
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