Posted on 03/11/2015 2:25:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
(CNSNews.com) - The House Select Committee on Benghazi will not subpoena Hillary Clinton's email server, because it can't, committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday.
"Well our committee doesn't have the power -- under our rules, we don't have the power to seize a personal property like that. The House as a whole, that's franky an open constitutional question as to whether the House as a whole has that legal authority, but frankly, we shouldn't have to compel it," Gowdy said.
"You can subpoena but the power to subpoena is only as good as the power to compel compliance," Gowdy, an attorney, said. "But rather than have that protracted legal battle, I don't know why she doesn't just turn the server over."
At her news conference on Tuesday, Clinton said the private email server she used during her time at the State Department "contains personal communications from my husband and me, and I believe I have met all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private."
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I’d like to provide the info in post 13 to Gowdy but his website does not support contact by those outside of South Carolina.
Any South Carolinians willing to do the job?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3266834/posts?page=13#13
So if it’s untested, file the subpoena and make THEM defeat it. Hoy crap guys!
We have given Congressional committees far too much credit for oversight, and what their power is.
We have an AG in contempt of Congress and nothing happens.
We happen Lois Lerner taking the Fifth before Congress and nothing happens. No, wait a minute she is collecting a pension.
We have Hillary once again saying “F$%# You!” to the GOP and nothing happens.
It is all theater.
ALL of it.
Vince Foster comes to mind.
Fired not “fired at” lpl
“Yes, but the DOJ has the right to seize the Server, and they have the power and the right to investigate this to the fullness of the law”
I’m sure as soon as the Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as the new AG she will jump right on it. LOL!
This is b/s Gowdy probably ran this by Boenhner and Boenhner nixed it. Gowdy could have filed that subpoena amd have the court kick it out that at least would show that they’re trying doing something.
What the folks in Boenhner’s district ought to do is start a recall petition. Even if it goes nowhere it sends a message.
appoint a special prosecutor who does.... asap
LOL!
” Respectfully, BULLCRAP MR GOWDY!”
Delete “respectfully.”
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