with her dark sunglasses and stony expression, the image of hillary staring at her smartphone made her look such a boss that it launched its own tumblr parody account the photograph, which dates from a trip to tripoli, libya in september 2011, was even adopted by the former secretary of state herself for her twitter profile picture but it seems the picture, which inspired hundreds of comedy memes, could be no laughing matter for clinton as it emerges the photograph could be a figurative smoking gun indeed, clinton herself has removed the image removed from her twitter account because it could show her using her controversial personal email account to conduct diplomacy in libya for more than a year, the former secretary of state had used the monochrome image of her using a blackberry on board a c military plane around a month after colonel gaddafi's regime fell switcheroo: hillary clinton swapped out a picture of her using a blackberry on her way to libya for a silhouette promoting a gender equality initiative  the picture, regularly seen by her 29 million followers, was removed sunday    to promote a political campaign for gender equality, timed to coincide with international women's day the image was once a symbol of clinton's funny side as the face of the texts from hillary meme, which she said had given her 'many lolz' but the change also comes at a time when senior figures in congress are intensifying scrutiny of hillary's communications from 2009 13, which it was recently revealed were not conducted via official state department accounts proof? the chairman of the house committee on benghazi mentioned that he has seen no emails from clinton's time in libya, despite pictures such as this one from 2011, showing her using a blackberry  the picture  inspired hundreds of comedy memes posted on a parody tumblr account last year this one refers to carly rae jepsen's pop song call me maybe  a lot of the memes make a joke about how serious clinton looks and speculate about what she's doing on her phone  the image of clinton staring at her smartphone with her dark sunglasses and stony expression make her look like she doesn't have time for anyone  clinton has handed over swathes of communications from the time, but it has been claimed that the documents have 'huge gaps' the image was mentioned by the chairman of a house committee into the 2012 attack on us diplomats in benghazi to suggest that vital communications from clinton's involvement in libya were being kept from public view rep trey gowdy (r south carolina), today told cbs's face the nation that he has been provided with no emails from the september 2011 trip   despite clinton being clearly pictured communicating while aboard the plane he said: 'there are gaps of months and months and months 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 users couldn't resist creating memes that make clinton look like she receives lots of invitations to parties  some make a joke out of  those intending to run against clinton, like massachusetts senator elizabeth warren  others imagine clinton talks to other famous internet faces over youth behaviour including grumpy cat  clinton made this entry into the texts from hillary account herself   the entry does not insult any political rivals, but just ribs the site's creators '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 'so, there are huge gaps and with respect to the president, it's not up to secretary clinton to decide what is a public record and what's not' gowdy also said the records don't include anything from around the dates of the benghazi attack itself, in which the us ambassador to libya was killed suspicions: rep trey gowdy (r south carolina) mentioned the pictured of clinton while contending that emails from her time in libya had not been handed over  as of sunday evening, clinton's profile still featured the blackberry image, but as the 'header photo' displayed at the top of the twitter page in order to see it, users have to access her profile directly the image will not appear in the timelines of her followers, nor when she is retweeted or appears in search results clinton herself tweeted to explain the change of profile picture she wrote: 'see my new profile pic to raise awareness on how far we've come in reaching equal rights for women & girls worldwide' she also included a link to not thereorg, which is sponsored by the clinton foundation she runs with her husband, former president bill clinton
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former secretary of state swapped out phone picture for blank silhouette  said the switch was to raise awareness of gender equality initiative  came amid huge scrutiny over use of private emails to enact foreign policy  photograph was used to complain about emails withheld from congress  trey gowdy said it 'strains credibility' to think picture from 2011 does not show clinton dealing with libya situation using private accounts  picture also inspired 'texts from hillary' meme, which took off in 2012 