Congress May Subpoena Clinton’s Emails, Says Benghazi Committee Chair

“The House has no business looking at purely personal e-mails, but by the same token, she doesn’t get to decide what is purely personal and what is public.” — House Committee chair on Benghazi:
Congress May Subpoena Clinton’s Emails, Says Benghazi Committee Chair
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies about the Benghazi Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on Capitol Hill on Jan. 23, 2013. Lawmakers questioned Clinton about the security failures that led to the death of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Jonathan Zhou
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The House Committee on Benghazi recently issued a subpoena for all of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her tenure as secretary of state that were related to Libya. However, the committee itself doesn’t have the authority to subpoena private property, issuing the legal request instead as a political gesture to put public pressure on Clinton to voluntarily hand over her emails.

“One of them is public pressure,” said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Fox News Sunday. “If the public believes that it is reasonable for her to turn over that server which contains public information to a neutrally detached arbiter, then she'll be forced to do so.”

The Benghazi Committee, which Gowdy chairs, issued a subpoena on Clinton’s emails days after it was revealed to the public that she had exclusively used a private email account during her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton has turned over more than 30,000 emails to the State Department to comply with the Federal Records Act, but many suspect that more work-related emails remain hidden on her server.

Her email was set up on the homemade clintonemail.com server, which has also raised security concerns over its vulnerability to hacking.

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