The former U.S. ambassador to Kenya who claims he lost his job in part for using Gmail says there “may have” been an unfair double-standard now that Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email address on a private server has been revealed.
“As I’ve reflected on it in the last couple of days, it does appear like there was a different standard that was used in my case and that has been used in hers,” Scott Gration, the former Air Force general and ambassador, told CNN’s Michael Smerconish on “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Gration said he accessed Gmail because it allowed him to get breaking news alerts and news of possible terrorist activities “faster than it came through the official channels.”
“So for me, it was very important to have access to the different services that I had subscribed to in the embassy,” Gration said.
Gration, who flew 274 combat missions over Iraq as a fighter pilot and served as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, left his job as U.S. ambassador to Kenya in 2012 after an inspector general’s report hammered his management style and his use of a personal email address.
Clinton’s use of a personal email address on a private server was first publicly revealed last week, and has led to accusations that she’s tried to keep some emails from becoming public records.
“To find out that in reality, other people in the department, to include my supervisors, were doing things differently and were looking the other way, I think that’s hard,” Gration said.