South Carolina U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy said Sunday on Face the Nation he may by forced to call on a recalcitrant Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about Hillary Clintons emails.
Gowdy, who chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said he has met privately with Kerrys chief of staff and that their next interaction will be in a public setting.
If I dont get satisfaction from that public interaction with his chief of staff, the next person to come explain to Congress why he has been so recalcitrant to turn over documents will be the secretary himself, said Gowdy.
I want to get this investigation over with and [Kerry] is the only thing standing between me and a completed investigation, he continued.
It was revealed earlier this week that Clinton failed to provide the State Department with 15 Libya-related emails sent between her and her longtime friend, Sidney Blumenthal. That revelation undermined Clintons claim that she gave all of her official emails 55,000 pages worth to the State Department in December.
But Gowdy says Kerry has stonewalled his investigation by refusing to turn over all the documents he needs.
They havent given us emails for nine of the 10 senior aides that [Clinton] had, Gowdy said of the State Department. Its been over a year, and we dont have a single scrap of paper from nine of the 10.
The State Department indicated again Friday that it has no plans to get to the bottom of Clintons private email arrangement. State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted that the agency does not know just how many other work-related emails Clinton failed to turn over, but he said that the agency has no plans to find out.
Gowdy said that Clinton will appear before the committee just as soon as the Department of State decides to give me the documents that I need to have a constructive conversation with her.
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