Gowdy: Hillary ‘Wanted to Control Access to the Public Record’

‘It’s about control … and she almost got away with it’

HEMMER: “From my understanding it appears that half of the e-mails are still there. We shall see in time. Will you get custody of the server for your investigation?”
GOWDY: “I doubt it. And frankly Bill, we haven’t asked for it. We ask it to be turned over to the Inspector General. We asked that in March, she said no. We want a neutral detached, independent, third party to go through the server. I do not want to read her yoga e-mails, I don’t care about the bridesmaid’s dresses. I just care about to every e-mail that  relates to Libya and Benghazi. So I don’t need the server. I need a neutral detached referee to have the server and then give me the documents that I am entitled to. But her lawyer is neither neutral, detached or a third party.”
HEMMER: “From her spokesperson, Nick Merrill, he said this: ‘It is her (Hillary Clinton’s) hope the Department Of State and other agencies involved in the review process will sort out as quickly as possible which e-mails are appropriate to release to the public. She pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry and if there are more questions we will continue to address them.’ Does that suggest to you, that there is full cooperation now?”
GOWDY: “It’s hard not to laugh when I hear that. I know he’s in the business to say absurd things. But if that really was his intent and her intent, why did they set up this unique unprecedented e-mail arrangement? Why did she keep the e-mails for 20 months after she left the Department of State? She kept the e-mails. She didn’t turn them over then. Why did she delete e-mails after 20 months? Did she all of a sudden after 20 months conclude this is too burdensome for me to keep a bunch of e-mails on my server, so let me not only delete them, but wipe the server clean? If she were interested in cooperation, she would not have done of the things she has done today. This was not about cooperation. And frankly Bill, it’s not about convenience. It’s about control. She wanted to control access to the public record. And she almost got away with it, but she didn’t.”

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