Gowdy asks Clinton to turn over email server for review

The chairman of a U.S. House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi formally has requested that Hillary Rodham Clinton turn over her email server for an independent review.

Republican U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of Spartanburg sent a letter requesting that Clinton turn over the server she used for official State Department business to the State Department inspector general or another third party to determine what records should be made public.

Gowdy, a former Upstate prosecutor, said that while Clinton “is responsible for causing this issue” by using a private email server, “she alone does not get to determine its outcome.”

Clinton, seen as the likely Democratic nominee for president in 2016, has pledged that all her work-related email would be made public. But the former first lady also has acknowledged deleting thousands of messages related to personal matters. Clinton has said the server “will remain private.”

This story was originally published March 20, 2015 at 2:47 PM with the headline "Gowdy asks Clinton to turn over email server for review."