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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That crusher is scary ....is that a metal drum or plastic?
Metal I believe.
Imagine what it would do to Sensitive Computer Motherboards and Hard Drives......
To hell with the “rules” Gowdy, the left doesn’t even follow the law.
GROW A PAIR YOU GOP WIMPS!
That is only a murder investigation. We need something more serious, like a Watergate burglary.
BS. Her server is not protected speech. ANY official business makes it suspect.
Absolutely! Why do these hound dogs refuse to sniff?
Eeek!
Can’t some hacker just get the info and put it out into the public domain for us?
I would argue it is better to attack a more lightly defended position than one defended by mines, barb wire and many machine guns.
Only a handful of incriminating e mails are required. There are lots of places they may be obtained. the government of Say United Kingdom or Saudi Arabia or Israel. Then there is the entire US government
Since laws are only for Republicans and the citizen rabble it will never happen....but if Hillary had been a Republican that server would have been confiscated by the government by now.
People are going to get tired of being forced to follow laws dems do not have to and when that happens it will not be pretty.
Our Sheriff’s Dept is in big time trouble because they confiscate computers all the time, according to the local media.
It appears the Sleezy Clintons have out-foxed the GOP again.
Best post of the year!
However that power flows, Gowdy sent a message that you can do whatever
you want with e-mails and nothing will happen to you.
Nice message.
I’d be very surprise if a congressional investigatory committee lacks authority to compel the production of evidence. But it’s too late now. Hilary’s undoubtably destroyed it completely by now. It’s probably all melted down and on a rocket to Uranus by now. This investigatory committee needs a new chairman
So Boehner setup an impotent “investigation” committee. Not surprised.
Benghazi was two and a half years ago. Nothing has been done and nothing will be done.
It’s all theater.
Respectfully, BULLCRAP MR GOWDY!
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