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   Hillary Clinton told the FBI that former Secretary of State   
   Colin Powell recommended on two occasions that she use a private   
   email account for unclassified communication, sources told NBC   
   News early Friday.   
      
   According to the Democratic nominee, Powell made the suggestions   
   at a small dinner party shortly after Clinton took over at the   
   State Department in 2009 and in an email exchange around the   
   same time, The New York Times first reported. Two sources later   
   confirmed to NBC News that Clinton gave that account to   
   investigators in July.   
      
   Clinton's testimony was included in a report the FBI delivered   
   to Congress Tuesday explaining Director James Comey's decision   
   not to recommend charges against the former secretary of state   
   over her use of a personal email server, the sources said.   
      
   During a dinner party at the home of former Secretary of State   
   Madeleine Albright in early 2009, the host encouraged her   
   experienced guests — former Secretaries of State Condoleeza   
   Rice, Henry Kissinger and Powell — to give Clinton advice for   
   her time in office, according to The New York Times. Powell   
   reportedly explained that he found it useful to use a private   
   AOL email when he led the department in 2001. The dinner account   
   is also detailed in a forthcoming book about Bill Clinton's life   
   after the presidency by journalist Joe Conason.   
      
   Powell reiterated the recommendation in an email exchange with   
   Clinton, two sources with knowledge of their communication said.   
   Neither the State Department nor Powell have copies of the email   
   exchange, but the FBI does, the sources said.   
      
   In a statement Friday morning, Powell's office said: "General   
   Powell has no recollection of the dinner conversation. He did   
   write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use   
   of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and   
   how it vastly improved communications within the State   
   Department. At the time there was no equivalent system within   
   the Department. He used a secure State computer on his desk to   
   manage classified information."   
      
   Powell never used his private email for classified communication   
   nor recommended that Clinton should, the sources said. Powell   
   only sent or received classified information from a desktop   
   computer in his government office, they added.   
      
   Clinton has frequently made what critics describe as misleading   
   comparisons between her use of a personal email account and   
   Powell's.   
      
   When he took over the State Department in 2001, the agency did   
   not have a computer system for unclassified email.   
      
   Powell, who is believed to be the first Secretary of State to   
   use email, used an AOL email account. By the time Clinton took   
   over the department in 2009, a comparable email system for   
   unclassified messages was in place.   
      
   http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-told-fbi-colin-   
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