GOP rep wants Hillary to give server to ‘neutral’ arbiter
Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.) on Saturday urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to let an independent investigator search her private email server.
“President Obama promised you ‘the most transparent administration in history’ — but his first secretary of State has fallen painfully short,” Brooks said in the GOP’s weekly address. “By handing her server over to a neutral, third-party arbiter, Secretary Clinton can help us move forward with figuring out what happened to our people.”
{mosads}Brooks is a member of the House Select Committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Radical Islamists attacked the U.S. consulate during the incident there and killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
The Congresswomen said Thursday “all options are on the table” for potentially recovering State Department communications from Clinton’s server. Besides a third-party arbiter, this could include a House vote to issue a subpoena for the device.
“The people who knew them — who loved them — deserve the truth,” Brooks said of the victims of the attacks Saturday. “The government they served has a duty to provide the truth and do whatever is necessary to make sure it never happens again.”
Clinton’s server is contentious as she used it for both public and personal messages. The Benghazi Committee worries that some of Clinton’s State Department communications were lost when she deleted over 30,000 private emails.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) called Clinton’s personal email usage as Secretary “troubling” on March 3. The Benghazi Committee chairman has vowed to fully investigate the matter.
The Obama administration on Wednesday downplayed Clinton’s purge of personal emails from her device. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said her actions are “something I’m not going to comment upon and I’m not particularly interested in.”
Brooks on Saturday argued closure on Benghazi was more important that the debate over Clinton’s technology decisions.
“Because this isn’t about Hillary Clinton, or Trey Gowdy, or me,” she said. “It’s about the four brave Americans we lost. These men were public servants. They were also fathers, sons, friends, colleagues and neighbors.”
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