Hillary Clinton’s camp late Sunday issued a significant clarification about the steps they say were taken to review thousands of personal emails before they were deleted, claiming her team individually read “every email” before discarding those deemed private. 
 
 Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill made the clarification in a written statement to Fox News. This comes after the former secretary of state’s office revealed last week that while more than 30,000 “work-related” emails were turned over to the State Department, nearly 32,000 were deemed “private” and deleted. 
 
 This admission raised questions over how her team decided to get rid of those messages. Merrill on Sunday clarified an earlier fact sheet that described some of those methods but did not say every email was read. 
 
 “We simply took for granted that reading every single email came across as the most important, fundamental and exhaustive step that was performed. The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every email was read,” Merrill said. 
 
 Clinton, a likely Democratic presidential candidate, tried to tamp down the controversy over her exclusive use of personal email while secretary of state during a press conference last week. But the admission that she deleted thousands of messages, and her insistence that her personal server remain private, stirred the ire – and curiosity -- of lawmakers who want greater access to her communications as secretary and complain much of it may be gone forever. 
 
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 Whether the assurance that “every email” was read before being either deleted or turned over eases those concerns remains to be seen. 
 
 “I have zero interest in looking at her personal emails,” South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But who gets to decide what’s personal and what’s public? And if it’s a mixed-use email, and lots of the emails we get in life are both personal and work, I just can’t trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public’s getting everything they’re entitled to.” 
 
 Fox News' Ed Henry contributed to this report ||||| House Speaker John Boehner is expected to announce this week a new investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices as Secretary of State, including her admission that more than 31,000 emails were destroyed because she determined them to be personal, top House Republicans told ABC News today. 
 
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 During a news conference last week, Clinton did not go into the details of how the review of her email was conducted, but said it was “thorough” and that she went “above and beyond” what she was required to do in turning over many of her emails to the State Department. 
 
 "We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and deliver them to the State Department," she said, adding that all other emails were personal and pertained to matters such as "yoga routines," "family vacations," and "planning Chelsea's wedding." 
 
 After the news conference, Clinton’s team distributed a lengthy question-and-answer document that detailed the “multi-step” process. The process appeared to have included an extensive, nuanced search of Clinton’s inbox, but the document did not make clear how many of the emails were opened and read in the review. 
 
 On Sunday, Clinton’s spokesman clarified that “every email was read” and that the steps they outlined in the document “were in addition to reading them all, not in lieu of reading them all.” 
 
 According to the document, here is a summary of how Clinton’s attorneys, who were tasked with the job, said they sorted through her emails: 
 
 First, a search was done of all emails Clinton received from a .gov or state.gov account during the period she was secretary of state -- from 2009 to 2013. 
 
 Then, with the remaining emails, a search was done for names of 100 State Department and other U.S. government officials who Clinton may have had correspondence with during her tenure. 
 
 Next, the emails were organized and reviewed by sender and recipient to “account for non-obvious or non-recognizable email addresses or misspellings or other idiosyncrasies.” 
 
 Lastly, of the emails still left over, a "number of terms" were searched, including “Benghazi” and “Libya.” 
 
 The results of the search were that Clinton’s attorneys found 30,490 work-related emails and 31,830 emails that were deemed “private and personal.” 
 
 Clinton said on Tuesday she deleted all of the personal emails because she felt she “had no reason to save them.” 
 
 The revelation has only raised more questions among Clinton’s detractors about what was in those emails and why she used the private account in the first place. 
 
 Clinton said she did so out of “convenience,” but acknowledged during the news conference it “would have been better” if she had used two separate phones and two email accounts. 
 
 "I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously it hasn't worked out that way,” she said. 
 
 Democratic strategist and Clinton ally James Carville, speaking on “This Week,” said he suspected the former First Lady “didn't want [Rep.] Louis Gohmert rifling through her e-mails,” and added the controversy “amounts to nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing.” ||||| Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised a House panel that she permanently deleted all emails from her server, raising the stakes in a controversy that has dogged the presumptive presidential candidate for weeks. 
 
 WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a House select committee Friday that she permanently deleted all emails from the private server she used to conduct official business, apparently after she was first asked by the State Department to turn them over, the panel’s chairman said Friday. 
 
 In response to a congressional subpoena, Clinton also said she would not allow an independent third party to analyze the server. 
 
 Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, said in a letter to the panel that after her lawyers determined which emails were personal and which were private, a setting was changed to retain only emails sent in the previous 60 days. 
 
 “Thus, there are no hdr22@clintonmail.com emails from Secretary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state on the server for any review, even if such review were appropriate or legally authorized,” Kendall said. 
 
 The House Select Committee on Benghazi had subpoenaed the server this month, asking Clinton to hand it over to a third party so it could determine which emails were personal and which were government records. 
 
 The head of that committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said: “Not only was the secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server, ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest. 
 
 The disclosure raised the stakes in the controversy that has dogged the potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate for weeks, since it was revealed that she had used an email server in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home to conduct government business during her tenure from 2009 to 2013 as the nation’s top diplomat. The home is protected around the clock by the Secret Service. 
 
 Gowdy said Clinton’s attorney informed the committee Friday that she “unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server.” 
 
 “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after Oct. 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the secretary to return her public record to the department,” Gowdy said. 
 
 It was not immediately clear whether the emails still could be recovered from the server through cyberforensic procedures. 
 
 The congressman said that “in light of the secretary’s unprecedented email arrangement with herself and her decision nearly two years after she left office to permanently delete all emails,” and because of the matter’s import to the American people, the panel will work with House Speaker John Boehner, of Ohio, and other Republican leaders in considering its next steps. 
 
 Clinton said at a recent news conference at the United Nations that, in hindsight, it would have been smarter to have conducted State Department business through a government server. She said her attorneys had turned over 30,490 emails to the State Department in response to a request from the agency, but that she deleted more than 32,000 emails that she considered personal. 
 
 A spokesman for Clinton said in a statement Friday: “She’s ready and willing to come and appear herself for a hearing open to the American public.” 
 
 The spokesman, Nick Merrill, added that Clinton’s representatives “have been in touch with the committee and the State Department to make clear that she would like her emails made public as soon as possible.” 
 
 The Benghazi committee’s ranking Democrat, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, sought to play down Friday’s development, saying it merely confirmed what was already known. “It is time for the committee to stop this political charade and instead make these documents public and schedule Secretary Clinton’s public testimony now,” he said. 
 
 Gowdy is heading the latest House inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Killed in the violence were U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. 
 
 Meantime, Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, has asked his agency’s internal watchdog to examine how it handles its records and responds to requests for information after revelations about his predecessor’s use of a personal email account for government business. 
 
 “It is critical for the State Department to preserve a full and complete record of American foreign policy,” Kerry wrote to Inspector General Steve Linick. “It is also important for the American public to have access to that record.” 
 
 State Department officials said Friday that the request to the inspector general did not call for an examination of Clinton’s email but that Linick’s review could end up looking into the former secretary’s email. 
 
 The Obama administration has declined to explain much about Clinton’s use of a personal server and personal email account. 
 
 Clinton said many of her work-related emails were archived through other official accounts of those she communicated with. But State Department officials said in recent weeks that email was not automatically archived during her tenure.
– Hillary Clinton's team has—somewhat belatedly—clarified that every one of the approximately 32,000 emails deemed "private" and deleted was opened and read before being chucked. The clarification comes a few days after a Time story claimed that the review involved searching by keywords and not checking every email. A Clinton spokesman blames the confusion on a fact sheet provided after a press conference last week, which mentioned keyword searches. "We simply took for granted that reading every single email came across as the most important, fundamental, and exhaustive step that was performed," he said in a statement to Fox. "The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every email was read." But while the 31,830 emails appear to be gone forever, it doesn't look like the controversy for Clinton is going to go away anytime soon. House Speaker John Boehner plans to announce a new probe this week into Clinton's email use, including the deletions, according to ABC News, which cites "top House Republicans." And it's not just Clinton's emails that are gone: The State Department has admitted that routine archiving of the inboxes of senior officials only began last month. "It's very troubling," a spokesman for the National Security Archive group tells Politico. "People in the community of record-keepers and historians had known that our history was at risk for a long time."