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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

“I don’t know why she doesn’t just turn the server over.”

Gee, I do.


21 posted on 03/11/2015 2:38:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. .)
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To: Bulwinkle

Come on. Have not y’all figured out that NOTHING will happen from this or any other scandal. The whole D.C. cabal are totally corrupt. The banksters will nominate their two candidates & y’all will think that you have done your civic duty to run down like a heard of cattle to vote for one of these two pukes, which have no interest in your well being.


22 posted on 03/11/2015 2:39:05 PM PDT by Digger
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Val...Oh BABE,,...can they compel me to turn over all my mess???




23 posted on 03/11/2015 2:39:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Ray76

MacCracken was subpoened duces tecum and he destroyed paper claiming it was private


24 posted on 03/11/2015 2:40:14 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: IncPen

Just thinking the same thing although I actually think they are on the same side of the commies I mean democrats.


25 posted on 03/11/2015 2:41:05 PM PDT by funfan
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To: afraidfortherepublic; hoosiermama; cripplecreek; GeronL; stephenjohnbanker; SkyDancer
2017 eh?

A Lot of things can happen in that amount of time....


26 posted on 03/11/2015 2:41:24 PM PDT by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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To: Ray76

Secret Service beside guarding dignitaries is in charge of investigating fraud and money laundering under the umbrella of Homeland Security. Why wouldnt this fall under their jurisdiction ? You can’t tell me they were unaware of the Clintons computer use or incoming threats from the web!
Am still wondering if it isn’t their server that the Clintons used


27 posted on 03/11/2015 2:41:28 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: Sherman Logan
A congressional investigating committee doesn’t have the power to compel a witness to produce evidence? Really?

Have you checked into the Clintonemail.com IP address?

28 posted on 03/11/2015 2:41:32 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Bulwinkle

As far as I am concerned, once she used that server for goverment business it was no longer her “personal” server and it and andy associated backups need to be handed over. Should have keep your yoga emails on you personal account and you work emails on a .gov account.


29 posted on 03/11/2015 2:42:50 PM PDT by matt04
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To: GeronL

Understood. That doesn’t mean you don’t try, that you don’t put Biden in a damaging position.

Defense doesn’t put points on the board, offense does. You can not win without going on offense.

Theater is complicity


30 posted on 03/11/2015 2:43:38 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

Then get rid of the committee, because it apparently has no useful function.


31 posted on 03/11/2015 2:43:50 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: KC_Lion

Is that the equipment Mrs. Clinton is using to process her in-home server?


32 posted on 03/11/2015 2:44:35 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Funny... the IRS can seize anything they want to seize..
and Congress can seize nothing?..

SOMEONE... is playing hockey with a warped puck.. with no ice.. and a bent stick..


33 posted on 03/11/2015 2:44:50 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Sherman Logan

Their subpoena power flows through the attorney generals office, if that helps any


34 posted on 03/11/2015 2:44:57 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: nascarnation

I vote “kabuki”.


35 posted on 03/11/2015 2:45:11 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Ray76

I was called a shill because I said Gowdy would produce nothing but noise. Well...here we are again with all talk Gowdy.


36 posted on 03/11/2015 2:46:13 PM PDT by AmericanRobot
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To: Charles Martel

“Several” have been posted or given on TV. Virginia , the house in NY. NYC. Could it be mounted in one of the SS vehicles. Van? Limo ?


37 posted on 03/11/2015 2:46:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: hosepipe

SOMETWO?


38 posted on 03/11/2015 2:46:32 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: matt04

If she had wanted to keep private business private, she would have used a separate laptop of her own. This was planned as a way to conceal all that she did with full confidence that no republican would stand up to her.


39 posted on 03/11/2015 2:47:22 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: Ray76

Well the crooked US government better clean up its house soon or we are all gonna get nuked. The world cannot put up with this insane nonsense much longer. And the Russians and the Chinese and the Indians are gearing up for something.


40 posted on 03/11/2015 2:48:08 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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