motivated against her. is there a difference or did the rules change between when colin powell was there and when secretary of state hillary clinton was in that position? the issue there were some regulation adjustments and it does appear there were regulation adjustments in 2005 and 2009. there were changes, poppy. what s very clear is that even if folks on hillary clinton s side can prove that she did not break the federal records act here which is entirely possible then we wouldn t actually know because she has controlled these e-mails. even though even if she didn t go against the letter of the law, she went against the spirit of the law because even back in 2009 when she was secretary of state, the whole idea of this act was, if you use private e-mail to conduct government business you need to turn it over put it into the state department recordkeeping