Trey Gowdy (SC-R), head of the House Select Committee on Benghazi released a statement Friday that said:
We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.
Gowdy was not sure when she deleted all the content from her server but he thinks:
she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public records to the Department.
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Last week Gowdy sent a letter to Clinton’s attorney asking for the server to be turned over to an independent party to be investigated. He hoped the independent party would be able to recover the 30,000 emails her team deleted.
Elijah Cummings (MD-D) is the House Select Committee’s leading Democrat and he is trying to turn the attention away from Clinton. He said:
This confirms what we all knew – that Secretary Clinton already produced her official records to the State Department, that she did not keep her personal emails, and that the Select Committee has already obtained her emails relating to the attacks in Benghazi . . . It is time for the Committee to stop this political charade and instead make these documents public and schedule Secretary Clinton’s public testimony now.
Gowdy wasn’t buying it. He stated:
it is clear Congress will need to speak with the former Secretary about her email arrangement and the decision to permanently delete those emails. . . Not only was the Secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server, ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest.
Speaker of the House, John Boehner (OH-R) along with Gowdy and other members of the Benghazi panel have stated in the past the House could issue a subpoena for her server.