Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell complained about his recent appearance in the headlines in connection with the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal.

“Her people have been trying to pin it on me,” Powell told PEOPLE magazine in the Hamptons this weekend.

Powell was referring to Clinton’s interview with FBI interrogators, in which she claimed that Powell told her in a memo that he used a private email server as Secretary of State and that she could too.

But Powell made clear to PEOPLE that he is not involved in Clinton’s mess.

“The truth is, she was using [the private email server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did,” Powell stated.

So Clinton’s excuse with the FBI falls completely flat, according to Powell.

“It doesn’t bother me. But it’s okay; I’m free,” Powell said.

Powell’s representatives recently put out a statement saying that Powell only used his private AOL account for “unclassified” communications.

Even the Washington Post thought Clinton’s claim to the FBI was “just plain wrong.”

The Post‘s Chris Cillizza wrote: