Benghazi committee officially requests Clinton surrender her email server

Washington Times ^ | March 20, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

[rdl6989]

The committee investigating Benghazi formally requested Friday that Hillary Rodham Clinton turn her email server over to an independent third party so it can be scrutinized to determine whether she and the Obama administration complied with open-records laws.

Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy sent a letter to the former secretary of state’s personal lawyer making the request, which he said only comes after “exhaustive efforts” to get a look at her communications during the time of the 2012 terrorist attack on the diplomatic post in Libya’s second-largest city.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Suppose she has a “personal” lawyer and a “government” lawyer...
Oh...the inconvenience !

[rdl6989]

I can hear it now: “What difference does it make?”

[The Cajun]

making the request

We all know that ain't going to accomplish anything.

What comes next Trey?

[MeshugeMikey]

both.....former Rose Law FIrm Employees

[EagleUSA]

This should be interesting. Horribly bent Hillary has probably already “cleaned” the server and that could hang her right there. She has broken the rules, as usual, to hide her crooked dealings — now let’s see how Gowdy manages this.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Why doesn't the committee subpoena NSA headquarters for Hillary's emails?

Maybe her emails are sandwiched between the Bergdahl report and Lois Lerner's emails.

[blueunicorn6]

Gotta take it step by step. The Democrats will scream if every step isn’t followed.

“We would have given them the server if they had just asked. This just shows that it’s all a big right wing conspiracy.”

The Clintons think they are real clever and can get away with anything.

Get ‘em Trey!

[asinclair]

To what purpose would such a seizure of the Clinton private server do? When the "private" e-mails are deleted, those sectors are reclaimed and can be written over. Spam can, and would, do that. Ditto any logs, so the "metadata" would be gone by now. And to make things worse, there is free software that will perform a "DOD-grade" erase on all free space on the drive, so that even the NSA would have difficulty recovering the data.

If a third party were to do a full security audit on the box, that only says what is true now, not over the entire time the server was running.

About the only useful thing that could come out of this is that same security audit could check for malware -- we wouldn't know when it was injected, but at least it could confirm or bust Clinton's claim about whether the server was compromised or not.

SUMMARY: too little too late.

[spokeshave]

Seems to me, Hillary is firmly entrenched in the basement server...

[hlmencken3]

And Gowdy knew about it six months ago. That’s being generous because it was buzz in Washington since the Guccifier two years ago.

[hoosiermama]

CLOUD? Did she use some kind of back up system? A good IT should be able to recover it all

[SunkenCiv]

If she doesn't turn it over, it will be time for one of those online gubmint petition drives for her arrest, since the only reason there WAS such a server is because she BROKE THE LAW. Thanks rdl6989.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[radu]

Way too late, Trey. Shoulda done it the moment you learned about it last summer!

[rdl6989]

She seems to cover her tracks real good though. The backups are probably “lost or damaged beyond recovery”.

[demshateGod]

Meanwhile, over on CNN, Lindsey Vonn wins something or other and Glee cast: then and now.

[Zeppo]

Benghazi committee officially requests Clinton surrender her email server

What a strange turnabout.

Normally it's the Wicked Witch demanding someone's surrender...

[TigersEye]

Gowdy said he found out that Hillary didn’t use State Dept. email the day before the NYTs article broke the story. That was March 3rd.

[Grampa Dave]

HILLARY RODHAM NIXON