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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by ryanmerket on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:50PM (#11669105)
You keep saying Powell "did the same exact thing" -- but that's undeniably false. Powell used his personal AOL account from time to time when the official .gov mail servers were down. Clinton setup a private email server. Totally different things.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...

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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by GVIrish on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:21PM (#11669343)
Used personal email for public business. Ended up with some classified emails on his personal account. Same thing.

If you want to get very specific, yes, Colin Powell wasn't using [email protected] as his email. But the issue is the same, although as I said, his reason for doing was different.

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Re:State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost by ryanmerket on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:28PM (#11669398)
Setting up a private email server in your bathroom closet to conduct 100% of all your government and foundation business, and using an AOL account from time to time is definitely not the same thing.
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