This is ridiculously stupid for two basic reasons...
1 . Colin Powell's private email was hacked
2. It doesn't remotely matter what Powell did or said. There were basic laws in place. Hillary and her people violated them.
But sure. Tell the FBI it's Colin Powell's fault.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reportedly told federal authorities during her questioning over her email practices while at the State Department that former Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged her to use a private email account.
An email exchange emerged from 2009 between Clinton and Powell during the questioning that revealed that she had asked the former secretary of state about his email practices under George W. Bush, a source told The Times. Clinton had already setup her private email server during that time.
The book details a conversation between Clinton and Powell at a party hosted by Madeleine Albright in Washington. The Times reported that Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice also attended the event.
“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,” a passage details. “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.”
This story is a blatantly obvious lie. I am no fan of Colin Powell. But does anyone really think that his advice to Hillary Clinton on heading up our foreign diplomacy would involve email accounts?
It's wildly unlikely and has all the hallmarks of another Hillary lie.
According to The Times, Powell’s office said in a statement that he had “no recollection” of the alleged conversation between him and Clinton. He did confirm that he told Clinton via email about his use of a personal account for unclassified emails and “how it improved communications within the State Department.”
As usual, Hillary Clinton can't help taking a story with some basis to it and then blowing it up into a ridiculous lie that just calls attention to the fact that she is completely untrustworthy.