2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: You could see it coming. Hillary should never have run in 2016. [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)He emailed foreign leaders using his personal email, bypassing the State Department servers
"Powell has previously admitted using a laptop on a private line and sending notes to ambassadors and foreign ministers via personal email, according to a report by the state departments inspector general."
he also fussed a bit about PDA's
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-email-state-department
I assess that conversation they had - noting that using her own server was a mistake- with disbelief because - how did this "scandal" became the monstrosity of 2016- a scandal so huge it dwarfed more important things - like a Candidate's fiscal policy, or any kind of in depth discussion of their voting record or policy proposals. It was all political theatre.