Some say the Internet is forever, but according to Rep. Trey Gowdy, emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server between October and December 2014 are gone.
Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Monday that the former secretary of state wiped her sever sometime between Oct. 28 and mid-December.
The Benghazi committee began inquiry to get Clinton’s email records sometime prior to the server cleansing.
“We know the letter from the State Department went to the prior secretaries of state on Oct. 28, 2014,” the South Carolina Republican said Monday night on Fox News. “And her lawyer says some time in the fall of 2014 she decided not to keep those emails, and the fall would extend, I guess, into the winter solstice in mid-December.”
“I need to ask what she did and when she did it and, more importantly, why she did it,” he said, hinting that Clinton will be soon called on to testify privately about the emails, though it will be a separate effort than the Benghazi investigation.
“[Y]ou name the issue while she was secretary of state, and somebody has equity in those answers. That’s broader than just our committee. I’m going to do whatever the speaker asks me to do. But I’m not looking to enlarge the jurisdiction of our committee. Four murdered Americans are enough for me,” he said.
