A U.S. senator has revealed he has never sent an email despite completing 12 years in office . South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham insisted that he would happily let anyone look at his emails because he had never needed to send one . The comments were made on Meet the Press during a discussion about the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton 's use of a private server and personal email account to conduct foreign policy . South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham insisted that he would happily let anyone look at his emails because he had never needed to send one . But Graham , who was a congressman for eight years before becoming a senator , insisted that he had nothing to hide . ' I do n't email . No , you can have every email I 've ever sent . I 've never sent one , ' he revealed on Sunday 's Meet the Press . ' I do n't know what that makes me . ' The 59-year-old told Chuck Todd that it was crucial to get an independent body to retrieve and vet Clinton 's emails properly . Senior figures in Congress are already intensifying their scrutiny of the former secretary of state 's communications from 2009-13 , which they say were not conducted via official State Department accounts . Clinton has handed over 55,000 pages of communications from the time - but it has been claimed that the documents have 'huge gaps ' . One image , which Clinton has used as her Twitter profile picture for the last year , has also been studied to suggest that vital communications are being deliberately held from public view . It shows a stony-faced Clinton using her mobile while heading to Tripoli on a C-military plane in September 2011 . Rep. Trey Gowdy told CBS News he had been provided with no emails from the 2011 trip - despite Clinton being pictured allegedly communicating while aboard the plane . He said : 'There are gaps of months and months and months . The comments were made during a discussion about the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton 's use of a private server and personal email account to conduct foreign policy . This image of Clinton , taking during a 2011 trip , is also being scrutinized . 'And if you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya , she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand , we have no e-mails from that day . In fact , we have no e-mails from that trip . 'So , it 's strange credibility to believe that if you 're on your way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy that there 's not a single document that has been turned over to Congress . ' President Obama has also revealed he heard that Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business at 'the same time as everybody else ' when news reports surfaced .
senator Carolina Republican insists he does n't have any emails to look at . Comments made in debate about senator Clinton 's lack of personal privacy . Clinton scrutinized for hiring a private server to handle foreign transactions .