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On Friday, it was learned that Hillary Clinton wiped clean the server housing her emails from her time as Secretary of State.

Chairman of the House Select Committee Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said in a statement on Friday that, “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.”

USA Today reported that Clinton’s lawyer David Kendall said there’s nothing for the committee to see on the server from Clinton’s time in office. Clinton had given the State Department all work-related e-mails covering her tenure at the department from Jan. 21, 2009, through Feb. 1, 2013, he said.

Continuing in the reporting that in a six-page letter released Friday, Kendall said it would serve no purpose for Clinton to relinquish her server because Clinton’s IT advisers have confirmed “there are no hdr22@clinton.com e-mails from Secretary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State on the server for any review, even if such review were appropriate or legally authorized.”

The question then needs to be asked is who are Clinton’s IT advisors, and why did she determin what emails to turn over and what to delete, not the government as is required.

Politico reported that in a letter provided to the committee, Kendall said Clinton would not be turning over the server to a third-party for review and that the emails no longer exist on the private server located in her New York home.

“There is no basis to support the proposed third-party review of the server that hosted the hdr22@clintonemail.com account,” Kendall wrote. “To avoid prolonging a discussion that would be academic, I have confirmed with the secretary’s IT support that no emails…..for the time period January 21, 2009 through February 1, 2013 reside on the server or on any back-up systems associated with the server.”

Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee reacted to this crisis stating that Clinton has turned over all the emails and documents related to the Benghazi attacks.

“This confirms what we all knew—that Secretary Clinton already produced her official records to the State Department, that she did not keep her personal emails, and that the Select Committee has already obtained her emails relating to the attacks in Benghazi,” said Cummings (D-Md.). “It is time for the Committee to stop this political charade and instead make these documents public and schedule Secretary Clinton’s public testimony now.”

If you take the partisan spin out of this crisis and just look objectively at this, you can find there are numerous questions that need to be asked.

First, Clinton decided to use a personnel email address on a server in her home to conduct government business, then decided only to turn over emails what she deemed necessary to the State Department.

Clinton had her server wiped clean by her own IT team, and deleted all other emails she deemed personnel.  Clinton has never been transparent in this process, and keeps allowing this story to grow each day.

The other aspect we don’t know is what other communication she conducted especially as it relates to the Clinton Foundation and her time as Secretary of State in relationships with her office, foreign governments and the foundation.

The other aspect of this crisis it was learned last week that the State Department never had an Inspector General during her entire four years as Secretary of State, the only agency not to have one.

The only way for this crisis to go away is to release the server to a third party entity and to be more fully transparent otherwise this will continue to dog her as she begins her run for the presidency in 2016.