Two-time Obama voter, Colin Powell doesn’t need enemies when he has “friends” like Hillary and Barack
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An email released by House Democrats Wednesday has Washington in a tizzy this week. Written by Colin Powell around the time Ms. Clinton became Obama’s Secretary of State, the email appears to offer advice to Hillary on how to get around the government’s strict security and public records/disclosure rules. (Powell’s email can be found at the Spectator’s website provided beneath the article by Ross Kaminsky).
Clintonites, of course, are claiming that this shows that Mrs. Clinton, in setting up a personal server and concealing her communications throughout her tenure as America’s top diplomat , did nothing that her predecessors didn’t do… even those serving a Republican president.
As Kaminsky notes, those claims are rubbish! (see excerpts below)
While the memo doesn’t by any stretch exonerate Hillary’s outrageous actions and lies, it does not show Secretary Powell in a favorable light. To an extent, it is not only extremely embarrassing for Powell, it doesn’t reflect well on President Bush’s State Department.
For some of us this episode presents an unsatisfactory “we told you so” moment.
We recall Colin Powell’s sanctimonious strutting during the past two presidential elections. As though he was courageously acting on his highly admirable personal virtue and out of his deepest devotion to truth and justice, Powell eagerly let the world know that he was voting for Barack Obama. Another of those “I’m not leaving the GOP, it left me” exhibitions.
But if Secretary Powell thought that his “noble gesture” would inoculate him from historical criticism, he might be rethinking. As with everybody the Clintons deal with, Powell is just another dupe to be sold out when the heat is on a Clinton.
Of additional interest is the effects of this on the “step-family” of the Clintons…the Bushes.
It is documented that President Obama was well aware of Hillary’s personal server…an exchange of emails between the two on her unsecured server was found. While Obama and Clinton have been fairly successful in diverting attention from what should be a damning revelation, they are no doubt tickled with this latest development.
The Bushes have now been “exposed’ as no better than Obama, Clinton, and the administration. After all, GW’s Secretary of State was also admittedly evading rules to avoid public disclosure.
And the Bushes are outspokenly opposed to Trump’s candidacy and tacitly support Hillary for president.
What irony!! Wallow in a sty but don’t be surprised when you get covered in garbage.
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American Spectator Ross Kaminsky writes: Colin Powell’s Outrageous Behavior Is Not a Clinton Defense
Liberals are gleefully parading around what purports to be an e-mail from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (At least we think this was sent while she was in office, or else very shortly before taking office.) In it, Powell basically cops to violation of both government policy and perhaps the same law regarding the handling of confidential information that we know Hillary has violated.
The main thing to remember is that Powell was not Clinton’s boss, professor, mentor, or instruction-giver, and that his intentional misbehavior does not give sanction to hers. It simply cannot be used (credibly) to defend Mrs. Clinton. To use a bad analogy, this is the high-ranking gov’t official version of “If your brother said to jump off a bridge, would you do it?”
Also, Powell did not set up a private server the way Clinton did. However, I have to say that his implication in this note is that he intentionally aimed to prevent his own communications from becoming “official record and subject to the law” even though that is the default (and really only) standard for e-mails to or from the secretary of state that have even marginal connection to his/her work as a government official. To me, Powell’s note is tantamount to admission of a crime and Hillary’s reaction was that she thought that particular crime seemed like a fine idea.
DLH
