huge gaps exist in the  emails former us secretary of state hillary clinton has  provided to a congressional committee investigating the 2012  attack on a us 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 us 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
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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 hasn'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 