Hacker Forces Colin Powell To Deny Affair

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/colin-powell-guccifer-email-hack-594321

The Smoking Gun
August 1, 2013

AUGUST 1 -- As a notorious hacker seeks to distribute "very personal" 
e-mails sent to Colin Powell by a female Romanian diplomat, the retired 
general is denying that he engaged in an extramarital affair with the 
woman while he served as Secretary of State, though he recently advised 
her to delete all their online exchanges, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In a statement addressing his relationship with Corina Cretu, a member of 
the European Parliament who previously held a series of senior posts in 
the Romanian government, Powell, 76, wrote that he has known Cretu for 
about 10 years, having first met her "when I was the Secretary of State 
and she was an assistant to the President of Romania. We occasionally 
attended the same diplomatic and international meetings."

Powell, who served in President George W. Bush’s cabinet for four years, 
said that he kept in touch with Cretu, 45, by e-mail after leaving the 
State Department in January 2005. “Over time the emails became of a very 
personal nature, but did not result in an affair. Those type of emails 
ended a few years ago. There was no affair then and there is not one now,” 
Powell added.

Powell issued his statement (a copy of which can be found here) to TSG 
after a reporter sought to question him about the content of Cretu’s 2010 
and 2011 correspondence, which was posted online this week. “This note 
responds to a series of posts placed by a ‘hacker,’” Powell wrote.

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