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Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy Criticizes Clinton’s Decision to Wipe Emails from Server

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Getty 032715 TreyGowdy?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1427507084689Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy on Friday criticized Hillary Clinton, saying she had “unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.”

Last week, Gowdy called for Clinton to turn her email server to a third-party for analysis of her records. “After seeking and receiving a two-week extension from the committee,” Gowdy said Friday, “Secretary Clinton failed to provide a single new document to the subpoena issued by the Committee and refused to provide her private server to the Inspector General for the State Department or any other independent arbiter for analysis.”

Gowdy said that the committee learned on Friday that Clinton had wiped the server. “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Gowdy wrote.

Gowdy further criticized Clinton, saying that “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.”

Terming Clinton’s decision “unprecedented,” Gowdy says that that action involves the Select Committee and Congress, “but also those of the American people and their right to the full record of her tenure as secretary of State.”

Clinton has previously said that she deleted all private emails after turning over the records she and her team had identified as public record.


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