Elijah Eugene Cummings

“ Republican demands for Secretary Clinton’s server seem designed to spark a fight with a potential presidential candidate rather than following the standard practice in congressional investigations. When Chairman Henry Waxman investigated dozens of Bush White House staff who sent official emails from accounts at the Republican National Committee —which also housed its own servers – he did not demand access to RNC servers, backup tapes, or non-official emails, but rather worked with RNC attorneys to develop search terms and then relied on them to produce those documents that were responsive. ”

“ Republicans essentially claim they cannot trust Secretary Clinton and her attorneys despite the fact that they have fully cooperated with all requests from the State Department and the Benghazi Select Committee. ”

“ One indication of the scale of the loss of White House e-mail is the fact that the RNC has retained no e-mail messages whatsoever for 51 of the 88 White House officials with RNC e-mail accounts. Moreover, even for White House officials for whom the RNC has e-mail records, these records appear to be incomplete. ”