Colin Powell was just on Meet the Press. Great interview as usual. He's reliably moderately right of center. A Powell/McRaven ticket would be nice in a dream world.
1) Said the Iran deal was good because they don't get anything unless we have verification and we could always backtrack if we wanted to. I disagree. The standards of verification, as in they self-verify, are a joke.
2) Said while the Black Lives Matter movement brings good attention to an important issue and he doesn't mind the slogan, that the far bigger issues are stopping violence...particularly black on black violence. He said we needs to focus not on gun control, but on improving communities, schools, and most importantly families. I agree.
3) Said that parts of the GOP practice a level of intolerance not good for the party and the country. I agree.
4) After a reel of GOP candidates saying they would not have gone into Iraq because the intelligence was faulty. He said, of course knowing what we know now, but when he gave that speech all the lettered agencies said the intelligence was correct and all the members of Congress also voted for action based on what was told to them to be accurate intelligence. He also said he asked Bush to take it to the UN in order to give Hussein an out, and Bush agreed. I agree with his explanation.
5) Now the important part as it relates to this thread. He was asked about his usage of e-mail while at State. He said he has a whole chapter on this in his new book. He said that the IT systems when he got there were a mess, and he revamped the entire department into the 21st century. He then confirmed he had two systems...an unclassified system for department house keeping and a classified system for national security work. Duh. On another thread I posted (see below) specifically on what e-mail systems State Department employees would have and that Hillary's excuse that other Secretaries did the same thing was deceiving. I smelled her lie out like those ND linebackers on a Watson screen pass.
The thing is, her excuse "other SoS have used personal e-mail in the same manner," while defying logic and now personally contested by Powell, is legitimately accepted by a lot people.
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