Posted on 03/27/2015 3:27:27 PM PDT by kristinn
Statement Regarding Subpoena Compliance and Server Determination by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
March 27, 2015 Press Release Washington, DC—Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy today issued the following statement regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s response to the committee’s subpoena. She failed to produce a single new document and refused to relinquish her server to a neutral, detached third party for an independent review of potential public records:
“After seeking and receiving a two week extension from the Committee, Secretary Clinton failed to provide a single new document to the subpoena issued by the Committee and refused to provide her private server to the Inspector General for the State Department or any other independent arbiter for analysis.
“We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server. While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.
“Not only was the Secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest.”
“In light of the Secretary’s unprecedented email arrangement with herself and her decision nearly two years after she left office to permanently delete all emails and because the equities at stake involve not only those of the Select Committee and Congress more broadly, but also those of the American people and their right to the full record of her tenure as secretary of State, we will work with the leadership of the House of Representatives as the Committee considers next steps. But it is clear Congress will need to speak with the former Secretary about her email arrangement and the decision to permanently delete those emails.”
Nixon rolling over in his grave...as the saying goes
That act alone would result in criminal charges for the little people...
,,,,, what difference does it make at this point ???
I suspect Hillary has been a very bad girl.
Satan’s Prom Queen is just exercising her Liberal Privilege.
A nothing burger from Mr. Gowdy.
Hillary wears a large jock .
Direct and willful violation of the spirit and letter of the Federal Records Act. This is EXACTLY why the DRA was passed and enacted.
With Eric Holder in office, nothing will be done.
When are they going to put this criminal’s @$$ in prison? Corrupt bimbos all want to run the government because the white boys are afraid to put them in jail where they belong. Lerner and Clinton should be sharing the same cell. I’ve had to endure 8 years of being called a “rasis” by a bunch of bottomfeeding, scumbags. I’m not ready yet for 8 years of being called a “misogynist” by a bunch of wild-eyed, feminazi lesbians.
There is only so much a Congressman can do.
“Gowdy should seize the server anyway”
Mr. Gowdy has to work with and through the Justice Department and the FBI, both of which have been turned into political tools of the Obama presidency.
The courts will need to order it, like Nixon and his audiotapes in Watergate.
I wonder if she employed a method more sophisticated than CTRL-A and DELETE. She has already pleaded technological ignorance.
U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 101, Section 2071,
Paragraph a
"Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or with intent to do so takes and carries a way any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the united States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
Paragraph b
"Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document , paper, or other thing,willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."
Actually the taxpayers are shelling out quite a large sum to have them scanned into searchable documents.
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