Huge gaps exist in the . emails former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has . provided to a congressional committee investigating the 2012. attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi , Libya , the panel 's . chairman said on Sunday . Republican Representative Trey Gowdy said his committee . lacked documentation from Clinton 's trip to Libya after the . attack despite a popular photo image of her using a handheld . device during a flight to that country . 'We have no emails from that day . In fact we have no emails . from that trip , ' said Gowdy , who heads the committee in the U.S. House of Representatives . 'There are huge gaps . ' Off the grid ? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly not handed over emails from her 2012 trip to Libya , despite being pictured on a flight there with a device in her hand . Widely considered the frontrunner for the 2016 Democratic . presidential nomination , Clinton used a private email account . for all official business as President Barack Obama 's secretary . of state from 2009 to 2013 . Republicans have scrutinized Clinton 's actions over the . Benghazi attack in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three . other people were killed . The private email disclosure , . published in The New York Times last week , raised Republican . concerns about Clinton 's commitment to transparency . She has since asked the State Department to release her . emails but a State Department official said the review would . take some time . Clinton gave the committee eight emails last August and 300. in February related to the attack , Gowdy said on CBS 's Face the . Nation . Last week , the committee subpoenaed the State Department . for other emails . Gowdy said that in fairness the committee . would not release the emails ' content selectively . The State Department has requested email records from all . former secretaries of state , and Clinton has given it 50,000. pages of records to review . Speaking separately on Sunday , former Secretary of State . Colin Powell , responding to reports he too had a private email . account rather than a government one , said he did not have . emails to give the department . ' I retained none of those emails and we are working with the . State Department to see if there 's anything else they want to . discuss with me about those emails , ' he said on ABC 's This Week . Powell said that when he started as secretary of state under . Republican President George W. Bush , the State Department . computer systems were antiquated and he strove to update them . In November , its unclassified email system was hacked and had to . be shut down temporarily . Obama said on Saturday he only recently learned of Clinton 's . private email account .
Hillary Clinton came under attack last week when it was revealed she used a private email account during her time as Secretary of State . Representative heading probe into attack on Benghazi says Clinton has n't turned over any emails from her 2012 trip to Libya . Clinton was photographed on flight there with a phone in hand . That photo became famous when it was turned into a meme called 'Texts from Hillary ' which poked fun at secretary 's seriousness .