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Gowdy: 'Our Committee Doesn't Have the Power' to Seize Hillary's Email Server
CNS News ^ | 3-11-15 | Susan Jones

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; email; gowdysbc; hillary; hillaryemails; hillaryemailserver; treygowdy; uniparty
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

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


101 posted on 03/11/2015 5:18:16 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

So if it’s untested, file the subpoena and make THEM defeat it. Hoy crap guys!


102 posted on 03/11/2015 5:21:55 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


103 posted on 03/11/2015 5:23:41 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: hoosiermama

Vince Foster comes to mind.


104 posted on 03/11/2015 5:29:45 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SgtHooper

Fired not “fired at” lpl


105 posted on 03/11/2015 5:41:45 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: realcleanguy

“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!


106 posted on 03/11/2015 6:59:02 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

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.


107 posted on 03/12/2015 12:28:23 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

appoint a special prosecutor who does.... asap


108 posted on 03/12/2015 5:46:06 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: KC_Lion

LOL!


109 posted on 03/12/2015 8:18:50 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (f this controversy dies down, Obama has enougMy Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Darksheare

” Respectfully, BULLCRAP MR GOWDY!”

Delete “respectfully.”


110 posted on 03/12/2015 8:21:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (f this controversy dies down, Obama has enougMy Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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