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Re: OT: "Every American"...

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On 2017-02-13 00:59:02 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell 
<leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> said:

> In article <o7kpn3$lhp$1@dont-email.me>, Fred Moore <fmoore@gfcn.huh>
> wrote:
> 
>> Again, Hilary only did what Colin Powell had done and advised her to do
>> as best practices.
> 
> That's enough!
> I am so sick of this from people who should know better, and if they
> don't, they shouldn't be using computers at all. Here is the gist of
> this stupid, stupid argument.
> The difference between a private email address and a private email
> server is the difference between a ladyfinger firecracker and a stick
> of dynamite. Get it?
> 
> leo

Yes, Powell didn't set up his own server... he just used non-State 
Department servers that he had no control over whatsoever.

Does that sound safer to you?

> What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a 
> private phone line (sounds ancient.) 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. - Colin Powell

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/colin-powell-hillary-clinton-email-state-department

“With 

> respect to records, if I sent an email from my public email account to 
> an addressee at another public email account it would not have gone 
> through State Department servers. It was a private conversation similar 
> to a phone call. If I sent it to a state.gov address it should have 
> been captured and retained by State servers. I was not aware at the 
> time of any requirement for private, unclassified exchanges to be 
> treated as official records,” Powell said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colin-powell-defends-personal-email-set-up-while-secretary-of-state/

So... 

when does Congress begin their hearings, do you think?
-- 
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty," -Thos. Jefferson
Tiny hands... yoooge asshole.

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  Re: OT: "Every American"... Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-02-12 16:59 -0800
    Re: OT: "Every American"... FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 03:25 -0500
      Re: OT: "Every American"... Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-02-13 02:00 -0800
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        Re: OT: "Every American"... FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2017-02-13 17:49 -0500
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