Thursday - March 12, 2015

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Republican Colin Powell Deals a Death Blow to Hillary Clinton Email Scandal

You remember Colin Powell, right? RINO, admitted that he just had to vote for Obama because of race?

Right. Well then ...

Hey, does anybody remember Sandy Berger, the Clinton’s pet documents destroyer and thief? How much jail time did he get? Wait, it was 100 hours of community service and a $50K fine.

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.

A deathblow. Gosh.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But I do want to ask you one final question on this Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy. Which, of course, put you back in the news a bit this week, as well.

You were secretary of State during the early days of e-mails. You were one of the first secretaries, I believe, to set up a personal e-mail account. And you pushed to modernize the State Department’s system.

Based on your experience, what do you make of these revelations this week and what would you recommend that she do now?

POWELL: I — I can’t speak to a — Mrs. Clinton and what she should do now. That would be inappropriate.

What I did when I entered the State Department, I found an antiquated system that had to be modernized and modernized quickly.

So we put in place new systems, bought 44,000 computers and put a new Internet capable computer on every single desk in every embassy, every office in the State Department. And then I connected it with software.

But in order to change the culture, to change the brainware, as I call it, I started using it in order to get everybody to use it, so we could be a 21st century institution and not a 19th century.

But I retained none of those e-mails and we are working with the State Department to see if there’s anything else they want to discuss with me about those e-mails.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So they want…

POWELL: (INAUDIBLE) have a stack of them.

STEPHANOPOULOS: — they’ve asked you to turn them over, but you don’t have them, is that it?

POWELL: I don’t have any — I don’t have any to turn over. I did not keep a cache of them. I did not print them off. I do not have thousands of pages somewhere in my personal files.

And, in fact, a lot of the e-mails that came out of my personal account went into the State Department system. They were addressed to State Department employees and the State.gov domain. But I don’t know if the servers the State Department captured those or not.

And most — they were all unclassified and most of them, I think, are pretty benign, so I’m not terribly concerned even if they were able to recover them.

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.

Well, perhaps so. I guess this is called the “Brooklyn Bridge defense”? “Everybody’s doing it so it must be OK”?  And that excuses everything.

Of course, Colin Powell was Secretary of State from 2001 - 2005. Not exactly the dawn of the email era. Far from it. We had email in the corporate office world by the mid 90s at the latest; the whole AOL “You have mail” was early 90s; CompuServe and other early dial-up services offered messaging of some sort. But desktop computers where evolving by leaps and bounds then, and a 6 year old PC’s 200Mhz Pentium I was a total dead horse compared to the blazing hot 1Ghz PIII systems of 2001. And it sounds as if State didn’t have any internet at all prior to that, so what, they actually had a secure isolated network and couldn’t use it to surf porn all day?

The point is, Powell may not have had an email account on a state department server that he could access from home or remotely. But he certainly did have such an account from his office, guaranteed. And he wasn’t running an entire server in his basement. Nor any of it. This is just more horseshit thinking from the loonie left.

Oh and “based on the system that Powell used” is also highly misleading. Email hasn’t changed all that much in 20+ years. Server networks are all fairly similar too, at least as far as non-IT people are concerned. So this is another puff of smoke meant to obscure your vision. Her basement rig was not installed by Powell’s crew, nor was it an extension of the networks he had built that he talks about here. She has her own server with her own domain. Physically possesses it, unlike barking-moonbat.com, which is a domain registered and rented, with the software running on a server located ... I have no idea where.

I’m going to bed. 

Posted by Drew458     on 03/12/2015 at 11:32 PM   
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