It appears Trey Gowdy isn’t the only House Republican that Hillary Clinton has to fear.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is expected to announce this week a House investigation into former Secretary of State Clinton and her suspect e-mail practices, according to unnamed House Republicans who spoke to ABC News Sunday.
The news comes just as chair of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Rep. Gowdy (R-S.C.) is demanding Clinton turn over all of her e-mails and testify twice during the hearings regarding the 2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
Unfortunately, as Clinton claimed last week during her press conference about her decision to use a private e-mail account while at the State Department, she and her staff deleted all e-mails they deemed to be “private and personal” when gathering the work-related messages to turn over to the government.
While 30,490 were given to the State Department, 31,830 more were deleted. Clinton had her team release a document following her press conference that showed the steps taken by her staff to distinguish those professional from those personal.
The outline notably did not stipulate that aides read each e-mail.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill clarified Sunday that her staff read “every single e-mail” when they conducted said process, which involved searching through four years of electronic messages.
“We simply took for granted that reading every single e-mail came across as the most important, fundamental and exhaustive step that was performed,” Merrill said. “The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every e-mail was read.”
Clinton first admitted that the personal messages were deleted during her news conference last Tuesday, explaining that e-mails about her “yoga routines” and her daughter’s wedding, for example, were discarded in her staff’s review process.
Nearly everyone — save Bill Maher and James Carville — is slamming Hillary for her shady e-mail practices, which have dominated the mainstream news cycle for two weeks.
