Powell told Clinton about his use of private email

Powell told Clinton about his use of private email

WASHINGTON

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he sent Hillary Clinton a memo touting his use of a personal email account after she took over as the nation’s top diplomat in 2009.

In a statement provided Friday to The Associated Press, Powell said he emailed Clinton describing his use of a personal AOL account for unclassified messages while leading the State Department under President George W. Bush. Powell says he told Clinton his use of personal email “vastly improved” communications within the department, which at the time he says did not have an equivalent internal system.

Powell says the FBI may have obtained a copy of his memo to Clinton during its recently closed investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee’s use of a private email server.

Police chief: Fatal shooting ‘necessary’

TAHLEQUAH, Okla.

A police chief in Oklahoma says the fatal shooting of a hammer-wielding man was “necessary.”

Tahlequah police on Friday released a video of the Aug. 12 shooting death of 49-year-old Dominic Rollice of Park Hill by Lt. Brandon Vick and Officer Josh Girdner.

On the video, officers repeatedly tell Rollice to drop the hammer he’s holding, and each time he says no. Rollice then moved his arm backward with the hammer in his hand and police open fire.

Tahlequah Police Chief Nate King said the move indicated a possible intent to attack. King said the officers’ reaction was “necessary, not just justified.”

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting and will provide a report to the district attorney, who will decide whether the shooting was justified.

Woman sentenced: Exporting military gear to China

MIAMI

A California woman has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for illegally exporting U.S. military gear to China including jet fighter engines and a drone aircraft.

Court records show a Miami federal judge imposed the sentence Friday on 45-year-old Wenxia Man of San Diego. A jury convicted her in June of conspiring to export and actually exporting military equipment without the proper license.

Federal prosecutors say evidence in the case showed Man worked with a person in China to export engines used in F-135, F-22 and F-16 fighter jets as well as an MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft capable of firing Hellfire missiles.

Man purportedly told an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent she worked with a spy who helped the Chinese military copy items from other countries.

Associated Press