Judge: No Deposition By Hillary Clinton In Email Lawsuit

“Her people have been trying to pin it on me”, Powell said. Clinton has cited that as proof that she told the truth in general about her private email server, though Comey also presented evidence that she willfully misled the public and Congress.

Powell’s office released a statement late Thursday saying he had no recollection of the dinner conversation.

Secretary of State Colin Powell is pushing back against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s assertion that he suggested she use her private email account for non-classified information.

In a weird twist in the running sore that is the ongoing email server scandal, the notes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with Hillary Clinton, released in redacted form to Congress, revealed that the Democratic presidential candidate blamed Colin Powell for the arrangement.

Another interesting tidbit being reported is that Powell advised Clinton to use an AOL email address for her routine communications – not set up a private server in her home. “The decision is a reminder that Hilary Clinton is not above the law”.

Speaking to People magazine, Mr Powell said: “Her people have been trying to pin it on me”.

The FBI probe found 14,900 documents that were not among the 30,000 work-related emails returned to the State Department by Clinton’s lawyers, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tells the Washington Post. “It mentioned the New York Times, but only in reference to Clinton’s original claim, which Powell denied”.

Clinton also sent and received classified documents through her personal email, and that is something the Colin Powell did not do.

FBI Director James Comey however, said that while there was no clear evidence that Clinton and her aides meant to violate secrecy laws, “there is information that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”.

The decision by the FBI director is one that polls show most Americans disagreed with and Judge Sullivan apparently believes the issue warrants further investigation, as well. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that due to this setup, foreign powers like the Russians and the Chinese likely hacked into Hillary’s emails.

Unlike Clinton, Powell relied on a commercially available service to host his personal email account.

The group, Judicial Watch, had wanted Clinton to testify under oath as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit it is pursuing against the State Department.