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Powell, Rice staffers received classified info via personal email
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somebody went back and tried to pin this crap on Powell by reclassifying emails.
every single son of bitch in the state dept who was part of this hatchet job should be reassigned to serving meals in jail to every son of bitch in the IRS who targeted conservatives.
Our govt has grown larger and more disgusting everyday.
Tax dollars were just spent on a political hatchet job to protect a lying traitor.
This is an absolute outrage. What the hell was going on here? Who did this? fire their asses top to bottom.
every single son of bitch in the state dept who was part of this hatchet job should be reassigned to serving meals in jail to every son of bitch in the IRS who targeted conservatives.
Our govt has grown larger and more disgusting everyday.
Tax dollars were just spent on a political hatchet job to protect a lying traitor.
This is an absolute outrage. What the hell was going on here? Who did this? fire their asses top to bottom.
Washington (CNN)Colin Powell and top staffers for Condoleezza Rice received classified information through personal email accounts, according to a new report from State Department investigators.
Hillary Clinton has received severe criticism -- particularly from Republicans and computer security experts -- for using her personal email account while serving as the nation's top diplomat under President Barack Obama. Thursday's revelation about the two secretaries of state under former President George W. Bush gave her supporters an opportunity to claim the Democratic presidential candidate was being singled out over the practice.
The emails were discovered during a State Department review of the email practices of the past five secretaries of state. It found that Powell received two emails that were classified and that the "immediate staff" working for Rice received 10 emails that were classified.
The information was deemed either "secret" or "confidential," according to the report.
"Based on the department's responses and findings to date, additional potential classified material and/or highly sensitive information not intended for distribution may reside in the Department's unclassified paper and electronic archives associated with Secretaries Powell and Rice and their respective staff," a memo about the report said.
In all the cases, however -- as well as Clinton's -- the information was not marked "classified" at the time the emails were sent, according to State Department investigators.
Powell noted that point in a statement on Thursday.
"The State Department cannot now say they were classified then because they weren't," Powell said. "If the Department wishes to say a dozen years later they should have been classified that is an opinion of the Department that I do not share."
"I have reviewed the messages and I do not see what makes them classified," Powell said.
Clinton has argued that the messages from her email have since been deemed classified by the intelligence community as part of an "inter-agency dispute" between the intelligence community and the State Department over whether the information should have been classified.
Additionally, Powell said he never kept the emails in his possession when he left the State Department. Unlike Clinton, Powell's emails remained in government computer servers.
An aide to Rice, who now teaches at Stanford University, said that Rice herself never used email -- not even a personal email account -- during her tenure.
Clinton, who is now running for president, has weathered a year of political fire for setting up a personal email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York to conduct business as secretary of state. That allowed her to place her official state communication outside government purview and under her complete control. Critics claim this put national secrets at risk.
John Podesta, Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, said these issues are overblown. All of these instances are examples of how government bureaucrats keep too many things secret, he said.
"Clinton agrees with her predecessor that his emails, like hers, are being inappropriately subjected to over-classification," he said in a statement.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politi...ice/index.html
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The difference with Hillary is that the information in most of her "classified" status emails was no re-classified. The classified information was deliberately copied by one of her four staffers from the secure network to the unsecure network and then forwarded to her private email server.
somebody went back and tried to pin this crap on Powell by reclassifying emails.
every single son of bitch in the state dept who was part of this hatchet job should be reassigned to serving meals in jail to every son of bitch in the IRS who targeted conservatives.
Our govt has grown larger and more disgusting everyday.
Tax dollars were just spent on a political hatchet job to protect a lying traitor.
This is an absolute outrage. What the hell was going on here? Who did this? fire their asses top to bottom.
The difference with Hillary is that the information in most of her "classified" status emails was no re-classified. The classified information was deliberately copied by one of her four staffers from the secure network to the unsecure network and then forwarded to her private email server.