Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Wednesday a scathing report from the State Department’s inspector general would not have exposed details about Hillary Clinton’s private email use without pressure from Congress.

“There is only one reason why these facts are now available to the American people: thorough congressional oversight, including the Select Committee on Benghazi’s insistence that any truly comprehensive review of what happened before, during, and after the 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya must include public records from the former Secretary of State and her senior staff,” Gowdy said.