David Brock to Trey Gowdy: Release your emails

Close Hillary Clinton ally David Brock has a message for the Republican leading the charge for Clinton to release her personal emails: Release your emails, too.

In a letter Wednesday, Brock, who founded the pro-Clinton group Correct The Record, called the demands of South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy and the House Benghazi committee “Orwellian.” The committee last week subpoenaed Clinton’s emails relating to Libya from the State Department.

“This Orwellian demand has no basis in law or precedent,” Brock wrote. “Every government employee decides for themselves what email is work-related and what is strictly private. There is no reason to hold Secretary Clinton to a different standard — except partisan politics.”

“But since you insist that Clinton’s private email be accessed, I’m writing today to ask you and your staff to abide by the same standard you seek to hold the Secretary to by releasing your own work-related and private email and that of your staff to the public,” Brock added.

Brock’s letter comes one day after Clinton held a press conference to explain her exclusive use of personal email for official business during her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton said that she did so as a matter of “convenience” and that she had not saved some 30,000 emails her lawyers classified as purely personal in nature.

Republicans were not satisfied with that response, and Gowdy on Tuesday called for Clinton to grant access to messages still on her email server, which she kept in her home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

“I see no choice but for Secretary Clinton to turn her server over to a neutral, detached third-party arbiter who can determine which documents should be public and which should remain private,” Gowdy said.

But Clinton indicated in her press conference that she plans to offer no such access.

“The server will remain private,” Clinton said.

Gowdy and his committee also plan to call Clinton to testify twice, he said Tuesday — once to discuss her email practices, and another time to discuss the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, more broadly.

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