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Colin Powell: I used 2 computers while heading up State
[Wash Examiner] Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he used two computers while he led the State Department: a desktop for classified material, and a laptop for email.Powell served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, and during that time he "changed the brainware" of State's culture by using email, he said. "I had two machines on my desk: I had a secure State Department machine for secure material, and I had a laptop that I could use for email," said the former secretary of state on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And I would email relatives, friends, but I would also email in the department," said Powell. "But it was mostly housekeeping stuff. 'What's the status in this paper? What's going on here?' So it was my own classified system, but I had a classified system also on my desk." Powell said he devoted an entire chapter to his use of email in his book, It Worked for Me. Asked whether Hillary Clinton's private email setup during her tenure as secretary of state was a "serious issue," Powell noted that it is now the subject of two inspector general investigations and an FBI probe. "Mrs. Clinton and some of her associates will be testifying, or be going before inquiries with the Congress," said Powell. "It's best for me to talk about what I know, and not what occurred under Secretary Clinton's jurisdiction," he added. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-09-08 |
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