Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., who is part of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to former President Richard Nixon for her use of a private email address to conduct government business while in office.
“This disturbing revelation raises serious questions regarding whether Secretary Clinton complied with federal record keeping requirements and the Obama administration’s record policies,” he said in a statement Thursday, adding, “The last time we saw a high government official seeking to edit their own responses was President Nixon, and at least then he enjoyed the benefit of executive privilege.”
The Select Committee on Benghazi — which originally discovered the use of Clinton’s personal email address — subpoenaed her private emails Wednesday to further aid its investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton has faced harsh scrutiny after the New York Times revealed that she conducted all government correspondence from a personal email address and never set up a government one while secretary of state. Though her aides recently gave the State Department roughly 55,000 pages of her private emails, there are thousands more that were not handed over.
Late Wednesday night, Clinton broke her silence on the issue to tweet: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible,” to which the State Department said, “it will take some time” to comply with her request.
