House Republicans investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya on Wednesday released a March subpoena issued to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, one day after she said in a nationally televised interview that she “never had a subpoena” in the email controversy.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the Benghazi panel, said he had “no choice” but to make the subpoena public “in order to correct the inaccuracy” of Clinton’s claim.
Clinton told CNN on Monday that she “never had a subpoena,” adding: “Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation.”
Gowdy said the committee issued the March 4 subpoena to Clinton personally after learning the full extent of her use of private emails while serving as secretary of state.
Regardless of whether a subpoena was issued, “Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her entire time in office, and she had a legal duty to cooperate with and tell the truth to congressional investigators requesting her records going back to September of 2012,” Gowdy said in a statement.
The dispute over the subpoena is the latest flashpoint in an increasingly partisan investigation by the House panel, which was created to probe the September 2012 attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
Gowdy and other Republicans have complained that Clinton and the State Department have not been forthcoming with release of her emails and note that the State Department has said it cannot find in its records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Clinton’s private server.
The emails all predate the assault on the U.S. diplomatic facility and consist mainly of would-be intelligence reports passed to Clinton by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, officials said.
Gowdy has said the missing emails raise “serious questions” about Clinton’s decision to erase her personal server, especially before it could be analyzed by an independent third-party arbiter.
A Clinton campaign spokesman has said she turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the State Department, “including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal.”
(AP)
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At least we know their marriage is good! They seem very much a match to one another! Say, do we need another 4 or 8 years of this couple!
LaLaLaLa Hey, Hey Good Bye!
I wouldnt believe one word out of the mouth of this machshefa
Oh come on. Bubbe is as clean and honest as the wind driven snow. Just the name “CLINTON” conjures up thoughts of purity and holiness. You evil white racist Republican males better stop your war on women!
Politicians say anything.
Remember according to Clintonian principles, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
Hillary a big fat liar (like Bill) and its no problem,
Trump only said the truth and look in the whole turmoil,
Sick World and getting sicker
Clean and honest as the wind driven snow. Yeah, after it’s been driven over by 50,000 cars and pulverized into brown, slimy slush.
Don’t imagine for a moment that this will sway even one liberal from voting for her. Not even one.
Are we supposed to be surprised?? She (& her dear husband) has been lying their entire lives. So nothing new
I wouldn’t vote for her for dog catcher.
When Pinochio lied, you could tell because his nose got longer. When Hillary lies, you can tell because her lips move.
ענבי הגפן וענבי הגפן. A shidduch made in heaven as two of the all time greatest liars spin their tales and tails too. .
“increasingly partisan investigation by the House panel “]
Just love AP’s “totally objective” analysis here.
The only reason it’s “increasingly partisan” is that the Democrats are too afraid to stand up to the Liar-In-Chief.
No one in the media is going to hold them responsible for not pursuing the truth(except maybe Fox News, among the major news agencies), so they are playing the safe game.