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Will Rep. Trey Gowdy and Benghazi Select Committee Subpoena Hillary's Personal Emails ?
2015-03-04
[PJ Media] The New York Times reported yesterday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have violated the law by exclusively using a personal email account to conduct State Department business and further that Clinton did not EVER have an official State Department email. It is required by the Federal Records Act that all government emails and records must be preserved. Clinton's aides did not take any action to preserve Hilary's private emails, the only record of her communications.

The New York Times also reported that Clinton's people sent over 55,000 emails and documents to the State Department only TWO MONTHS AGO to comply with federal record keeping laws.

A source on the Hill tells PJ Media that Rep. Trey Gowdy, as head of the Select Benghazi Committee, has the authority to subpoena the emails from the ISP of her pantsuit@gmail.com account. (Shout-out to WMAL's Chris Plante for the email nomenclature.)

No one can possibly take the word of Hilary Clinton's team that all appropriate emails were turned over to the State Department or turned over to any investigating authority since she has every reason to conceal what happened if she is culpable. Who else would possibly be trusted to make such a determination about evidence in an investigation? And if you are a lefty reading this and think this is not a big deal, just replace the name "Hilary Clinton" with the name "Dick Cheney" and let me know where you stand on the issue.

There is some precedent to subpoena Hilary's email. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) subpoenaed Attorney General Eric Holder's email when Issa was head of the Congressional Oversight Committee regarding an entirely different scandal, Fast and Furious. Holder refused to comply and was held in contempt of Congress. Issa subsequently filed charges to compel disclosure with the DC circuit court, which naturally has refused to take up the matter.

In this instance, the government isn't even in possession of the emails (well, perhaps the NSA is...) in question, so Gowdy ought to go directly to her email provider and get the emails from there to make certain the proper information has been turned over. Will he do it?
Interestingly, General Petraeus just pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor involving classified documents. I'd be shocked if anything came of Clinton's e-mail irregularities/criminal activity.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Makes little difference; emails could show Hillary ordering a hit on the ambassador and nothing will come of it.

Each branch of the GIVERnment is ignoring the constitution and the media ignores its primary purpose.
Posted by: Airandee   2015-03-04 20:39  

#2  It appears the answer is "yes."
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169    2015-03-04 17:00  

#1  I'm sure they were all lost due to hard drive failures.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-04 08:39  

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