WASHINGTON—Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server “clean,” permanently deleting all e-mails from it, the Republican chairman of a House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said on Friday.
Rep. Trey Gowdy said the former secretary of state has failed to produce a single new document in recent weeks and has refused to relinquish her server to a third party for an independent review, as Gowdy has requested.
Clinton, the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, faced a Friday deadline to respond to a subpoena for e-mails and documents related to Libya, including the 2012 attacks in a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya. The attention to Clinton’s use of a private e-mail account and server has threatened to become a distraction as she prepares to launch her campaign.
Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, said Gowdy was looking in the wrong place.