Trey Gowdy: State Department Covered Up Clinton Emails

The House’s Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy believes that the State Department assisted with a cover-up over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

“The State Department, which is supposed to be apolitical, non-interested in the next presidential election, has been covering for Hillary Clinton since she left office,” the South Carolina Republican told Fox News’ Bret Baier.

According to Gowdy, the cover-up arrangement between the former secretary of state and her department allowed her to keep her emails for more than two years after she left office.

“It was only because the State Department would not go away, and that’s when it gets interesting,” the lawmaker added.

Gowdy went on to say that some emails involving Clinton were destroyed after subpoenas were sent out and blasted the Department of Justice for offering varying degrees of immunity to former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills and others connected to the case.

“Number one, if you think that there is evidence that is relevant to an investigation on a piece of physical property, you use a subpoena, a grand jury subpoena,” said Gowdy. “You don’t strike an immunity agreement with the computer, you go get the computer. Her lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, who represents Heather Samuelsson and Cheryl Mills, she’s on record of saying, ‘The Department of Justice assured me my clients did nothing wrong.'”

The Republican representative went on to question why an innocent person would seek immunity and suggested that offering Mills immunity also protected Clinton from prosecution.

“How can you possibly then prosecute Hillary Clinton for having classified information on her computer?” he asked, noting that Mills did the same thing. “You couldn’t do it.”

Though the FBI has declined to press charges against Clinton, her email scandal has not yet come to an end. Under the Freedom of Information Act, a judge has ordered the State Department to release an additional 1,050 emails to the public, notes Politico. Though the exact release date has not yet been announced, the batch of emails are expected to come before the November election.

Sources: Fox News, Politico / Photo Credit: Trey Gowdy/Facebook