George W. Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, is tired of Hillary Clinton blaming him for her email scandal. Clinton allegedly told the FBI that her use of a private email server came as a suggestion from Powell, a moment that is documented in a new biography of Bill Clinton:
Toward the end of the evening, over dessert, [Madeleine] Albright asked all of the former secretaries to offer one salient bit of counsel to the nation's next top diplomat. 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 ... [Powell] confirmed a decision she had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages. [Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton]
Powell himself said that he told Clinton in a memo that "his personal AOL email account…vastly improved communications within the State Department" when used for unclassified messages. But Powell told People in an interview published Sunday that Clinton's people "have been trying to pin it on me."
He clarified for the magazine that "the truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did."
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