[Daily Caller] State Department staffers who worked to respond to congressional requests for documents about the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks discovered in June 2013 -- a year earlier than has previously been reported -- that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account.The revelation, which was included a scathing 83-page State Department inspector general report released on Wednesday, "raises very serious questions" about the Obama administration’s lack of cooperation with the congressional committees that have looked into the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks," said Matt Wolking, the press secretary for the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
"The evidence uncovered by this independent watchdog showing State Department senior officials were well aware in June 2013 of Benghazi-related personal emails but ’took no action’ raises very serious questions about the administration’s lack of cooperation with Congress," Wolking told The Daily Caller.
The Committee, which is chaired by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, has engaged in an increasingly bitter battle with Obama’s White House, the State Department and the Defense Department over production of records it says are relevant to its investigation. Many Democrats have accused the Select Committee of unnecessarily prolonging both the Benghazi investigation and of unfairly focusing on her use of a personal email system.