The House Select Committee on Benghazi cannot subpoena personal property, but the full House of Representatives can. Will that body be forced to subpoena Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server?
“Well, we shouldn’t have to,” committee chairman Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) tells Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. “I hope it doesn’t get to that point. It’s an open legal question, and any time you litigate something, you’re talking about years and years.”
“I think an eminently reasonable alternative,” said Gowdy, “is for her to turn over that server to an independent, neutral third party. She says she deleted personal e-mails. Chris, I have zero interest in looking at her personal e-mails. I don’t care about her yoga practice. I don’t care about bridesmaids’ dresses. I don’t want to see that. But who gets to decide what’s personal and what’s public? And if it’s a mixed-use e-mail — and lots of the e-mails we get in life are both personal and some work — I just can’t trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public is getting everything they’re entitled to.”
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