Gowdy Says Clinton Testimony Could Take ‘A While’

“We’re trying to run the investigation the way that serious investigations are run”.

Gowdy said “the more energy [Hillary] put into cleansing or wiping the server clean, I think your viewers should take or infer from that perhaps there was something on there she really didn’t want us to see”.

And a recent inspector general probe raised concerns about whether classified information had traversed the email system, resulting in a counterintelligence referral being sent to the Justice Department.

Wallace then played a clip of Hillary Clinton in Iowa saying she won’t get “down in the mud” with Republicans investigating Benghazi. Well, I would have no idea. And I’m not going to engage in it now. I get that she’s frustrated. Her decision to handle her e-mail in this way has delayed our ability to do our job with respect to benghazi and it remains to be seen whether or not she’s placed national security information at risk.

ABC anchor Martha Raddatz asked Gowdy about Clinton’s statement over the weekend in which she stated she had turned over all of her emails.

Gowdy said questions about Clinton’s growing email controversy will be part of the hearing only because they’re relevant to his task of finding out what Clinton knew prior to the fatal September 11, 2012, terror attacks on the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya. “I don’t read the statement that way, and I can’t read the statement that way because I know that to be false”.

Gowdy claimed that his focus is on “the four murdered Americans in Benghazi” but that before he can write “the final, definitive accounting of that I have to make sure that the public record is complete”.

“Remember those 15 emails that Sidney Blumenthal turned over to our committee that she did not turn over to the State Department?” he asked.

“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked for Gowdy’s reaction after playing a short clip of Clinton lambasting Republicans for playing “the same old partisan games” by politicizing her email scandal.

The questions, he said, will include why Clinton set up a private email account to use at the State Department and why some classified documents were on her private server. “It was just us that determined this unique email arrangement that she had with herself”. Whether she’s terribly mistaken a lot, or whether there’s an intent to deceive, I’m not smart enough to answer that question.

“So again, I would tell you this, had it not been for this unusual e-mail arrangement that she had with herself, you and I would not be talking this morning”.

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