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Quote of the Day

September 2, 2016 at 2:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data.”

— Colin Powell, quoted by Politico, in an email to Hillary Clinton in 2009, warning that if she was using a BlackBerry to “do business,” the emails could become “official records and subject to the law.”

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