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pnwmom

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Sun Mar 8, 2015, 06:30 PM Mar 2015

Colin Powell, paraphrased: Sorry, Obama, I got rid of my State Department emails. [View all]

Ask me if you have any questions.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/08/huge-gaps-in-hillary-clinton-email-record-benghazi-probe-chief-says

The State Department has requested email records from all former secretaries of state, and Clinton has given it 50,000 pages of records to review.

Speaking separately on Sunday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, responding to reports he too had a private email account rather than a government one, said he did not have emails to give the department.

"I retained none of those emails and we are working with the State Department to see if there's anything else they want to discuss with me about those emails," he said on ABC's This Week.

Powell said that when he started as secretary of state under Republican President George W. Bush, the State Department computer systems were antiquated and he strove to update them. In November, its unclassified email system was hacked and had to be shut down temporarily.

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