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Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, head of the House
Select Committee on Benghazi, said on March 4 that Clinton had
until March 13 to comply with a subpoena to provide the
committee with relevant emails. The deadline has been extended
to March 27, the spokesman confirmed.
"Chairman Gowdy granted a reasonable extension because for him
this is not about politics. It is about getting all relevant
documents for the committee," said Jamal Ware, spokesman for the
committee. "He still believes the best option for Secretary
Clinton is to turn over her server to a neutral arbiter to
independently determine what should be in the public domain. The
committee has no interest in her personal emails."
Clinton has said she has already given copies of all her
work-related emails to the State Department. The State
Department has said it has already given Gowdy's committee all
the relevant emails from that cache, some 300 in all.
Members of Gowdy's committee argue that they need to see all of
Clinton's emails, including those she did not give to the State
Department, to be sure of this.
Gowdy's committee is investigating the attack in which a U.S.
ambassador was killed, along with three other Americans, during
Clinton’s tenure at the State Department. He has said he wants
Clinton to testify to the committee before April, when she is
expected to formally announce her candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Clinton's use of a personal email address, rather than U.S.
government email, as well as her use of a private server, has
bought her under scrutiny.
Clinton’s office has said she turned over paper copies of more
than 30,000 work emails to the State Department last year,
including all that pertained to Benghazi, and that almost 32,000
more emails were withheld as private or personal records.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker and Jonathan Allen; Writing by Bill
Trott; Editing by Bernard Orr and Michael Perry)
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