[People Magazine] On Friday, the New York Times reported that Clinton told FBI officials former Secretary of State Colin Powell had advised her to use a personal email account while she held the Secretary of State office herself.
"Her people have been trying to pin it on me," Powell, 79, told PEOPLE Saturday night at the Apollo in the Hamptons 2016 Night of Legends fête in East Hampton, New York.
"The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did," Powell added.
Why does the former diplomat believe this to be the case?
"Why do you think?" he said. "It doesn't bother me. But it's okay; I'm free."
The email scandal has dogged presidential hopeful Clinton for more than a year. But federal officials decided not to pursue criminal charges after a three-and-a-half-hour interview, which was when the Democratic nominee disclosed her alleged conversation with Powell.
The reported conversation was first brought to light in journalist Joe Conason's upcoming Bill Clinton biography, Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton, in which the writer details a dinner party held by Clinton and attended by Powell, Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice.
"Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation's next top diplomat," Conason wrote. "Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, which he had sent and received via a State Department computer ... [Powell] confirmed a decision she had made months earlier ‐ to keep her personal account and use it for most messages."
Powell's office later released a statement to NBC News, saying he "has no recollection of the dinner conversation." However, "He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department."
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"He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department.
he wrote it a year after she'd already setup her homebrew bathroom server. I'm thinking he doesn't want any part of this Perjury damage control
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The he did it too excuse has never worked. Trump (or an ally) should come up with an add showing a kid that did something wrong, something they knew was wrong, and using the 'he did it too' excuse. Then show Hillary trying to pin it on Powell. Didn't work with your kids, why would you listen to this with your leaders?
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Yeah, and I'm sorry but I don't hold Powell in the highest regard either. There are so many of these "elites" who think computers are some kind of magic, don't understand the technology behind them or the potential security risks and don't know enough to listen to people who do understand. It's arrogance and stupidity. Now we know that Powell is in that same category. It doesn't excuse Clinton.
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Abu Uluque, true, I mean he used AOL for Pete's sake. Probably used one of the free disks they were giving away constantly.
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You chose to support her and her husband. Hang out with criminals and you get dirty. Understand this Mr Powell, no one cares if your telling the truth, the Clinton machine eats people like you for snacks. She owns the narrative, and you sir are now part of her slime.
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[Breitbart] The Huffington Post, one of the world's most deranged and trafficked news sites, featured a headline on Sunday calling for the closure of the embattled Clinton Foundation. The left-wing outlet's front page banner linked to a New York Times article, which highlights, among other things, that Bill and Hillary Clinton's billion dollar nonprofit has "accepted tens of millions of dollars from countries that the State Department -- before, during and after Mrs. Clinton's time as secretary -- criticized for their records on sex discrimination and other human-rights issues."
The Huffington Post is just the latest outlet to acknowledge that the explosive research, found first in Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer's New York Times bestselling book Clinton Cash, has inspired a massive movement of journalists and political figures -- on the left, right, and center -- calling on the Clintons to dismantle their problematic nonprofit.
The Times piece shines the spotlight on "a deal involving the sale of American uranium holdings to a Russian state-owned enterprise" -- another revelation first revealed in Clinton Cash -- "... which involved major Clinton charitable backers from Canada ..." as "another example of the foundation intersecting with Mrs. Clinton's official role in the Obama administration."
Sounds great, but there's likely an ulterior motive:
Biggest problem with shutting it down is how to funnel the money to Hilarity and Bill. It's going to be tracked and taxed. Setting up another charity is just the same thing all over again.
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Yeah, but before they took the money, Bill and Hill made 'em promise to straighten up and fly right!
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Biggest problem with shutting it down is how to funnel the money to Hilarity and Bill
The Foundation makes it easier to open a checking account, but why can't they get money in a gym bag from a thick guy with a vaguely East European accent like regular people?
[Motley Fool] General Dynamics' (NYSE:GD) Lima, Ohio-based tank-building factory is back from the dead (the rest of General D was already doing just fine). But it's still a complicated situation -- so let me explain.
Last quarter, General Dynamics reported a 3% decline in sales across its four major divisions. Combat systems, the division that builds Abrams main battle tanks, LAV light tanks, and Stryker armored personnel carriers took it on the chin, with sales down 7% year over year. This obviously was not great news for the company's Lima plant, which builds both the Abrams and the Stryker, and where the payroll has been slashed from a high of 1,200 employees 10 years ago, to about 400 today.
But there's better news rumbling down the pike.
Last week, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency -- the arm of the Pentagon responsible for coordinating foreign arms sales -- announced that it has notified Congress of a big new order for Abrams main battle tanks for Saudi Arabia. According to DSCA, Saudi wants to buy 153 M1Al/A2 "tank structures" from General Dynamics.
Of those tanks, 133 will then be converted into the M1A2S "Saudi Abrams" configuration, being equipped in the process with a battery of smoke grenade launchers and 0.50-caliber and 7.62-mm machine guns to supplement their main guns -- and stocked with 6,650 rounds of tank ammo. The remaining 20 tank bodies will be used as "battle damage replacements" for Saudi tanks lost in the fighting in Yemen.
Additionally, with casualties mounting in Yemen, the Saudis have placed an order for 20 of General Dynamics' M88A l/A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift Evacuation System (HERCULES) Armored Recovery Vehicles -- used to recover damaged tanks from the battlefield, and return them to base for repair.
Total cost for Saudi Arabia's shopping list: $1.15 billion.
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"Converted into the M1A2S "Saudi Abrams" configuration"... does that mean 1 forward gear and 5 in reverse with Mecca-seeking auto drive function??
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Lets say GD has to shut down the facility. And ten years down the pike the Army needs new or rebuilt vehicles. The tooling most likely has been scrapped. The machinery if government owned is junk due to be stored outside. If owned by GD it is long since auctioned off. The work force and the skills set is one. Its one good reason to keep the place busy with busy work if nothing else to kerp a core staff with the skills set. The same reason the Navy keeps Electric Boat busy. It isn't like a law firm where all you need is an office, desks and phones
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All true Mr. Head.
However, preserving historic manufacturing will only enable a return to historic battle mission strategy. It does not advance the capability it serves.
Consider your example: EBC, or NASA, or AT&T. Only in the last two decades(?) has telephony advanced the 100 year old two wire solution. NASA continues to refine reaction mass vehicles. Personal transport (cars) have ICE and 4 wheels, as did the Benz 120 years ago.
Invest the million$ of throwaway manufacturing maintenance money in something new.
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Ohio is well positioned to advance autonomous vehicle research because of it's bad weather. It's one thing to drive around in sunny California. Let's see how your LIDAR performs in a snow storm!
BLUF: [Free Beacon] Baldwin asked Cohen where Clinton was in the midst of this disaster. She said that even though Clinton did call the governor, people could say that that is not sufficient.
"Where is Hillary Clinton?" Baldwin asked. "Apparently she’s talked on the phone to the governor of Louisiana. But, you know, folks can point out that’s not enough."
Cohen said he was not sure where Clinton was. He then brought up the three campaign managers that have come and gone from Trump's campaign.
"Well, I’m not sure where she is, but I know when you have three campaign managers within the period of time they have," he said. "If you have a campaign in chaos, a leader that can’t work with people and a guy who’s totally on message. And the message is Trump‐Trump steaks, Trump liquors, Trump vodka, Trump television station, Trump Tower. Put him back in the tower where he belongs."
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Wow Mr. B. That is a prescient thought. Perhaps even precocious. I rather fancy your train of thought.
Alas, Mr. P is perhaps more on the mark when money and Hilly are "The true story of many a cause célèbre is never made manifest in the evidence given or in the advocates' orations, but might be recovered from these old papers when the dust of ages has rendered them immune from scandal". Well now, I have as Hilly has said herself, gone "off the reservation".
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Hangover? If Hillary is elected and too sick to serve we'll have Bill's third term.
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Another scenario: Hillary gets elected, sworn in, and immediately announces her resignation due to health reasons. Tim Kaine becomes president.
Hillary still gets to say she was the first woman president.
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I think Hillary simply thinks she's untouchable. She's got the media and the insiders telling her so.
Trumps folks (or allies) should cut a commercial of Demcrats bashing Bush for not going to Louisiana with video of Trump there and Obama golfing and Hillary resting.
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Hildabeest attacks Trump for manufacturing products overseas. The problem is that she has produced nothing of value during her whole working life. Nothing but bringing misery to the masses.
No matter who wins the election in November, things will be bad. Welcome to the crisis, folks. Dems will be tyrant winners or rampaging losers.
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[Truth Revolt] Newsmax TV host and former GOP congressman J.D. Hayworth invited David Horowitz onto his show Thursday to discuss a Daily Caller report that leftist financier George Soros' Open Society Foundation sought to influence the Supreme Court’s recent immigration decision through "a sophisticated amicus brief and media strategy."
Right Wing Watch (a watchdog of the right run by Norman Lear's People for the American Way), which describes Soros innocuously as "liberal philanthropist," supplied the video above, in which Horowitz describes Soros rather less charitably as Hillary Clinton's "puppet master." He went on to say that while Soros' influence on the Supreme Court was "horrible enough," the big picture is that the multi-billionaire is "a Jew-hater, an Israel-hater and an America-hater" who ought to be in jail, something for which the only hope is a Donald Trump administration.
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Don't forget his kids who appear to be cut from the same cloth. RICO is a way to go, just after honoring an extradition request as a favor to Putie.
[DAWN] FOLLOWING the extensive discussions at the recent Pakistain envoys’ conference, Pakistain proposed a ’separate’ dialogue on Jammu and Kashmire to India.
As expected, India promptly interposed preconditions for the talks, even more onerous than in the past. Pakistain’s counter -- that the talks would be strictly on the basis of the UN resolutions on Kashmire -- indicates that the proposal for talks was largely a tactical move to expose India’s obduracy.
It would have been unseemly to hold talks with India when it has just killed over 70 Kashmiris like Burhan Wani and blinded hundreds, including small children, and is continuing with its campaign of oppression. A ’separate’ dialogue on Kashmire will not stop India’s repression. On the contrary, talks would have enabled India to deflect world attention from its atrocities by focusing on ’terrorism’ and could have defused this latest Kashmiri revolt.
During Kashmire’s last major revolt in the 1990s, Pakistain refused talks with India unless it agreed to substantive discussions on the Kashmire dispute. Detailed proposals and counter proposals were exchanged prior to and following the foreign secretary-level talks in 1994. Pakistain called for implementation of the UN resolutions; India obfuscated. But, its foreign secretary indicated a readiness for a solution based on ’autonomy plus’ (that is, more than provided in Article 370 of the Indian constitution) and ’independence minus’ (that is, short of full statehood).
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Motley Fool] General Dynamics' (NYSE:GD) Lima, Ohio-based tank-building factory is back from the dead (the rest of General D was already doing just fine). But it's still a complicated situation -- so let me explain.
Potential scenario - HRC gravely ill, drops out of race. Congress called into emergency session for 22nd Amendment discussions. 
[DAWN] FOLLOWING the extensive discussions at the recent Pakistain envoys’ conference, Pakistain proposed a ’separate’ dialogue on Jammu and 
