Hillary Clinton Explains Why She Deleted 30,000 Personal Emails

“I chose not to keep my private, personal emails,” Clinton said. “Because they were personal and private about matters I believe were within the scope of my personal privacy and particularly that of other people, they had nothing to do with work, I didn’t see any reason to keep them.”

Hillary Clinton answers questions from reporters March 10, 2015 at the United Nations in New York. Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

Last week, the House Committee on Benghazi subpoenaed all of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her tenure as Secretary of State that might be related to Libya. 

Clinton used her personal email account to conduct governmental affairs when she was Secretary of State from 2009-2013.

Clinton said she turned all of her work-related emails over to the State Department, but the chairman of the Benghazi Committee has called for an independent investigator to check her email archives to verify that claim.