{"id":49021,"date":"2016-09-14T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49021"},"modified":"2016-09-14T06:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T10:18:35","slug":"powell-warned-clinton-not-to-make-him-fall-guy-over-email-scandal-leaked-messages-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49021","title":{"rendered":"Powell warned Clinton not to make him fall guy over email scandal, leaked messages reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Fang and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Naomi LaChance
\nThe Intercept<\/p>\n

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell attempted to discourage Hillary Clinton and her team from using him as a scapegoat for her\u00a0private email server problems, according to newly leaked emails from Powell\u2019s Gmail account.<\/p>\n

\u201cSad thing,\u201d Powell wrote<\/a> to one confidant, \u201cHRC\u00a0could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton\u2019s party to get their attention. She keeps tripping into these \u2018character\u2019 minefields,\u201d Powell lamented. He noted that he had tried to settle the matter by meeting with Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in August.<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s private messages were leaked by D.C. Leaks, an anonymously managed\u00a0website that shares hacked emails from U.S. military and political figures. D.C. Leaks has a relationship<\/a> with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence. D.C. Leaks provided access to Powell\u2019s emails to a number of reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The emails show Powell regularly corresponding with reporters and friends about the Clinton email server scandal, explaining that his situation was different. When Powell arrived at the State Department, the information technology system was badly dated, he argued. And unlike Clinton, Powell never set up a private server. Instead, he used his personal AOL account, on a server maintained by AOL, and used a government computer for classified communications.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is no secret that I used a unclassified personal email account in addition to my classified State computer,\u2019\u201d Powell wrote to the New York Times\u2019 Amy Chozick. He implored the dozens of reporters and producers who emailed him to read his book, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership<\/em>, in which he devoted an entire chapter to his efforts to revamp the State Department\u2019s IT system.<\/p>\n

The Clinton campaign\u2019s effort to blur the lines between Clinton\u2019s private email server and Powell\u2019s AOL account left Powell deeply frustrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are going to dick up the legitimate and necessary use of emails with friggin record rules. I saw email more like a telephone than a cable machine,\u201d Powell wrote<\/a> last year to his business partner Jeffrey Leeds. \u201cAs long as the stuff is unclassified. I had a secure State.gov machine. Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell added in a tangential complaint: \u201cI told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn\u2019t any fees for awhile. I should send her a bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton sought Powell\u2019s advice at a dinner on June 16, 2009 at former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright\u2019s house, according to the emails. Powell gave Clinton \u201cwritten guidance on why and how [he] had been doing it.\u201d Also in attendance were former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice, Lawrence Eagleburger, George Schultz, Warren Christopher, James Baker and Henry Kissinger.<\/p>\n

\u201cDumb. She should have done a \u2018Full Monty\u2019 at the beginning,\u201d Powellwrote<\/a>. He added: \u201cI warned her staff three times over the past two years not to try to connect it to me. I am not sure HRC even knew or understood what was going on in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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