If Hillary Clinton thinks the scandal will end when she turns all of her email over — it won’t.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi will soon move to obtain private emails from as many as 10 of her top aides from her time as secretary of state.
“That’s great when you email other people on the .gov it would be captured by the .gov server, but if you’re talking to people private to private that will never be captured,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, the committee chairman, said.
“We are going to seek any private email that relates to official business, and I don’t care about wedding cakes, but any work that could have been done on private-to-private accounts for those State Department employees we know had private accounts,” the South Carolina Republican told CNN on Tuesday.
The committee will seek emails related to official government business from people like Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, then-deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan and longtime aide Huma Aberdin, according to Gowdy.
“She said she went through and produced all public information — and I am not in the habit of accusing people of being untruthful unless I have evidence to the contrary — but she’s essentially asking us to take her word for it,” Gowdy said.
According to Gowdy, it is too early to tell if a subpoena will be needed.
Gowdy, who has already said publicly gaps of months and months exist in her emails, reconfirmed this to CNN.
For example, the Benghazi committee received no emails from the Clinton camp about her October 2011 trip to Libya — despite the well-known photo of her en route, sitting on a plane with her Blackberry in hand and sunglasses on.
“It wouldn’t be reasonable that she was on her way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy and there are no emails from that trip,” Gowdy said, explaining the Benghazi committee only has jurisdiction over emails regarding Libya.
“With respect to materials that the select committee has requested, the department has stated that just under 300 emails related to Libya were provided by the department to the select committee in response to a November 2014 letter, which contained a broader request for materials than prior requests from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,” a statement released Tuesday by Clinton’s office said.
“Given Secretary Clinton¹s practice of emailing department officials on their state.gov addresses, the department already had, and had already provided, the select committee with emails from Secretary Clinton in August 2014 — prior to requesting and receiving printed copies of her emails,” the statement said.
