March 3, 2015 — The Benghazi committee sends "preservation letters" to Clinton and to her email hosting company ordering them to protect, and not to destroy, any records.
Trey Gowdy Subpoenas Hillary Clinton’s Personal Emails
“The committee also has issued preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal obligation to protect all relevant documents.”
Let's see if they complied or if they "erased them" too.
I haven’t seen this mentioned (maybe I missed?).
From the article:
“The Colorado firm’s hiring coincided with the discovery that an email account for Clinton’s longtime confidant, private consultant Sidney Blumenthal, had been hacked by a Romanian national Marcel Lazar Lehel, known as Guccifer.”