Months long gaps exist in Hillary Clinton’s emails, according to Rep. Trey Gowdy.
The South Carolina Republican, who is also the top Republican on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Sunday emails Clinton’s camp has given to the committee have significant gaps in them.
“There are gaps of months and months and months,” Gowdy said on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday.
“And if you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya, she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand. We have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip,” he added.
The lack of emails from that trip, “strains credibility to believe that if you’re on your way to … to discuss Libyan policy that there’s not a single document that’s been turned over to Congress.”
Gowdy said the committee is waiting to release information on the emails and how they pertain to the Benghazi investigation until they have all the emails they want and deem necessary, and are thus able to paint a full picture.
However, for now, he has lost confidence in the State Department to determine what of Clinton’s emails are or are not public record.
“Frankly, I’ve lost confidence in the State Department to make that determination,” Gowdy said. “They’re the ones who allowed this arrangement. They’re the ones who did nothing about this arrangement until they got a request from our committee.”
