What will Congress do about the Hillary Clinton coverup?

Byron York:
On September 20, 2012, just nine days after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, the House Government Oversight Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requesting that she turn over "all information … related to the attack on the consulate."

About two weeks later, on October 2, 2012, Clinton responded, saying she would cooperate fully with the investigation into what went wrong in Benghazi.

"We look forward to working with Congress and your committee as you proceed with your own review," Clinton told committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa. "We are committed to a process that is as transparent as possible, respecting the needs and integrity of the investigations underway. We will move as quickly as we can without forsaking accuracy."

We now know that that statement was not true. We know because Hillary Clinton herself told us.

Beginning with that September 20, 2012 letter, House investigators made repeated appeals to the State Department for documents and information on Benghazi. After much haggling and legal maneuvering, State turned over a significant amount of material. Officials there not only pledged cooperation but told the House that they had turned over all the documents requested.

"The State Department actively told us that they were cooperating with us," recalls one knowledgeable Hill Republican. "They made representations that the documents [turned over] were complete and responsive."

Yet when Clinton's secret email system was exposed this year, she turned over about 850 never-before-seen pages of Benghazi-related documents to the State Department, which in turn gave them to the House. Those documents had been under a request from Congress since the September 20, 2012 letter. The former secretary of state let more than two years pass before producing the information.
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... She had access to her own communications. She received the September 20, 2012 letter from the committee, addressed to her, requesting "all information" on Benghazi. By her own account, she had 850 pages of emails that fit that description. And she did not turn them over.
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Because she destroyed the original electronic records she has no way of proving that she had complied with the request for documents and it suggest that she did not.

She better keep her lawyers on speed dial.

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