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Guardian - Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails
🇺🇸 Two Republican secretaries of state … received information later deemed classified on personal accounts. The state department watchdog found that both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, America’s top diplomats under president George W Bush, were sent sensitive national security information to nongovernment email addresses. A spokesman for Clinton was quick to seize on the findings, arguing that they demonstrate “just how routine it is for government bureaucrats to go overboard” in keeping information secret from the public. Senior Democrat Harry Reid called it “a watershed moment”. |
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