Powell has 'no recollection' of Clinton email dinner conversation

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell "has no recollection of the dinner conversation" recounted by Hillary Clinton to FBI agents, as documented by journalist Joe Conason in a forthcoming book.

Conason's anecdote, reported Thursday night by The New York Times, recounts a small dinner party at Clinton's Georgetown home toward the beginning of her time as secretary of state, with former secretaries Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice also in attendance. During that dinner, Conason reports, Albright asked the former secretaries to impart advice to Clinton.

“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," Conason wrote in his book "Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton,” of which the Times said it acquired an advance copy.
Powell, according to Conason's account, told Clinton that "his use of personal email had been transformative for the department" and “thus confirmed a decision [Clinton] had made months earlier — to keep her personal account and use it for most messages.”

A spokeswoman for Powell's office issued a statement following the Times' story:
"General Powell has no recollection of the dinner conversation. He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department."
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"At the time there was no equivalent system within the Department. He used a secure State computer on his desk to manage classified information," the statement continued. "The General no longer has the email he sent to former Secretary Clinton. It may exist in State or FBI files."

Powell’s pushback comes amid an ongoing legal dispute between Clinton’s lawyers and Judicial Watch over whether the conservative legal watchdog group can depose the former secretary of state as part of its lawsuit over State Department records.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/colin-powell-clinton-email-book-227200#ixzz4HofMrEYe
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A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued the order Friday as part of a long-running public records lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The judge's decision is only a partial victory for the group, which had sought to question the Democratic presidential nominee in person and under oath.

Judicial Watch is among several groups, including The Associated Press, that have sued the government over access to records about Clinton's service as the nation's top diplomat.
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so this dinner party conversation never happened. It's another one of Clinton's Bosnia sniper fantasies.

But is it enough for perjury -assuming she used this story as an answer to FBI questioning?
She can probably wiggle out of it by saying she got mixed up...but now she has to answer in writing Judical Watch's interrogatory
 
Powell didn't say it never happened, just that he had no recollection. Maybe Albright or Rice will come forward to confirm or deny.
 
christiefan915 said:
Powell didn't say it never happened, just that he had no recollection. Maybe Albright or Rice will come forward to confirm or deny.
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Powell's just being polite.....with thousands of others calling her a liar....there's no need for one more.....

It pretty damn hard to recollect something that never happened.....only one I know that can do that with regularity is Thingy.....
 
NOVA said:
Powell's just being polite.....with thousands of others calling her a liar....there's no need for one more.....

It pretty damn hard to recollect something that never happened.....only one I know that can do that with regularity is Thingy.....
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If you have proof that there was no dinner, post it.
 
If you believe that what Crooked Hillary did is the same as what Colin Powell did you are

a) A partisan hack who will defend Crooked Hillary no matter what
b) Too stupid to vote
c) Both
 
it's pure deflection. it's a made up attempt at her usual shift-shaping pointing the finger of blame at others.
Being A Clinton means never having to be accountable for what you do.
 
christiefan915 said:
If you have proof that there was no dinner, post it.
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I have no recollection of many things that other's remember, then there is sometimes a different recollection. It's like witnesses to a crime, everyone's recall is different, it doesn't necessarily mean either party is lying necessarily, it's the way you perceive or remember the events, or don't remember them.
 
anatta said:
it's pure deflection. it's a made up attempt at her usual shift-shaping pointing the finger of blame at others.
Being A Clinton means never having to be accountable for what you do.
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What is funny is that she admits she made a mistake yet she keeps deflecting. Chris Cillizza from WaPo was all over her for this. I don't think the Clintons are capable of telling the truth. Remember, she grew up during Watergate. I believe she actually admired Nixon's secrecy
 
Rana said:
I have no recollection of many things that other's remember, then there is sometimes a different recollection. It's like witnesses to a crime, everyone's recall is different, it doesn't necessarily mean either party is lying necessarily, it's the way you perceive or remember the events, or don't remember them.
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I bet Powel would have remembered if he had committed a crime......
 
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