Released email from Colin Powell details how he "got around" using State Department servers.

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An email exchange between Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton has been released by the House oversight committee, and one email contains Powell's advice to Clinton detailing how he used a private email server to avoid using State Department servers.

 

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell used a personal computer connected to a private telephone line to send and receive emails to staffers, friends and foreign leaders without having to go through State Department servers.

 

Powell shared that experience with Hillary Clinton two days after she took over as secretary of state. Powell cautioned Clinton to "be very careful," lest her emails be discovered and become part of the official State Department record.

 

"I got around it by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data," Powell wrote to Clinton in January of 2009.

 

Clinton told the FBI that Powell's advice did not factor into her decision to use a personal email account. And she has said she did so for convenience, not to skirt government record-keeping requirements.

 

Powell's email suggests he was determined to avoid having his correspondence preserved and possibly made public, describing that as "a real danger."

 

"What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line (sounds ancient)," Powell wrote. "So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers. I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels."

 

Here's the link to the story and a link to the PDFs of the original email chain.

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-around-disclosure-detailed-in-new-email

http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/DOS-HOGR-09022016-000001%20to%20000003.pdf