Washington Examiner: Republicans question why FBI interviewed Powell, not Clinton, over emails

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was reportedly contacted by the FBI about a pair of classified emails found among his personal records.

Powell, a Republican appointee, told Politico Thursday he had been visited by two FBI agents late last year for a “casual” discussion of his email practices.

The former chief diplomat disputed an inspector general’s findings that two emails sent from “state.gov” accounts to his personal inbox should have been classified as “confidential,” the lowest level of classification in government.

Jeff Bechdel, spokesman for the Republican group America Rising, also expressed skepticism over the idea that the FBI interviewed Powell but not Clinton.

“The fact remains Secretary Clinton is the only cabinet official to ever house and maintain a private server in her basement that contained all of her work and personal emails,” Bechdel said. “The security of that server and the risk it posed to national security is at the heart of the FBI’s ongoing investigation — not 12-year-old emails sent to secretaries of past administrations.”

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