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Benghazi terror attack probe to subpoena
Benghazi terror attack probe to subpoena
Benghazi terror attack probe to subpoena for access to Hillary Clinton emails from private server.
A congressional committee investigating the terror attacks on a U.S. mission in Libya was expected as early as Wednesday to subpoena the emails of Hillary Clinton, who used a private account exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — and used a computer email server now traced back to her family’s New York home.
The Republican-led House Select Committee on Benghazi planned the subpoenas to demand additional material from Ms. Clinton, congressional aides told The Associated Press. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the committee’s actions.
The development on Capitol Hill came the same day the Associated Press reported the existence of a personal email server traced back to Ms. Clinton’s Chappaqua, N.Y., home. The unusual practice of a Cabinet-level official running her own email server would have given Ms. Clinton — who is expected to run for president in the 2016 campaign — significant control over limiting access to her message archives.
The practice also would complicate the State Department’s legal responsibilities in finding and turning over official emails in response to any investigations, lawsuits or public records requests. The department would be in the position of accepting Ms. Clinton’s assurances she was surrendering everything required that was in her control.
Congress said it learned last summer about Ms. Clinton’s use of a private email account to conduct official State Department business during its investigation of the Benghazi attacks.
