2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Would there be an FBI investigation and numerous FOIA lawsuits if SoS had followed normal protocols [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)You are comparing apples and hockey pucks.
Powell and Rice sent a few private email messages, using their gmail and Yahoo accounts. Powell and Rice never set up a homebrew, unsecured server in their house and conducted all State business on it--without the knowledge of the President.
After all, the FBI is investigating Clinton's server. That's the issue here. Powell and Rice never used a personal server.
Furthermore, Powell and Rice never sent 2,000 emails, over an unsecure server, that were later deemed "classified". Powell and Rice never sent 22 emails, over a private, unsecure server, that were assigned the highest level of classification, "Top Secret or above Top Secret." These emails were deemed, by the State Department, to be too sensitive to be released.
What Powell and Rice did is far from what Clinton did. What Clinton did is unprecedented.