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Hillary Clinton cleared her email server permanently

Sunday, 29 March 2015 4:15 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 29 March 2015 5:00 AM ]

Clinton erased all information from the personal email server she used while serving as the nation’s top diplomat.

Hillary Clinton has wiped private email server “clean” from all information she used while serving as the US secretary of state, says Rep. Trey Gowdy.

“We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server,” Gowdy (R-S.C.) said in a statement late Friday.

Apparently, she decided to delete her email server “after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time” requested that she return her public record to the Department, he said.

“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,” he added.

Gowdy is the Republican chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 deadly attack on a US diplomatic compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi that has issued subpoenas for information on Clinton’s e-mails.

Last week, Gowdy asked Clinton’s attorney to hand over the email server to a third party as part of an ongoing investigation in order to recover about 30,000 emails that her team deleted before turning the rest over to the State Department.

However, Clinton has not been able to produce a single new document and has refused to turn over her server to a third party, Gowdy noted.

Earlier in March, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein urged Clinton to explain in more detail why she used a personal e-mail account to conduct government business during her time as secretary of state.

She did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department.

Gowdy and other Republicans are accusing her of being overly secretive and believe that the emails could damage her anticipated White House run in the process as she is considered the front-runner for the party's 2016 presidential nomination.

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