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ByJackGillum and Ted Bridis The Associated Press WASHINGTON A House committee investigating the Benghazi, Libya, attacks issued subpoenas Wednes- day for the emails of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who used a private account exclu- sively for official business when she was secretary of state — and also used a computer email server now traced back to her family's New York home. The subpoenas from the Republican-led Select Com- mittee on Benghazi de- manded additional mate- rial from Clinton and others related to Libya, spokesman Jamal D. Ware said. The panel also instructed tech- nology companies it did not identify to preserve any rel- evant documents in their possession. The development on Cap- itol Hill came the same day AP reported the existence of a personal email server traced back to the Chap- paqua, New York, home of Clinton. The unusual prac- tice of a Cabinet-level offi- cial running her own email server would have given Clinton — who is expected to run for president in the 2016 campaign — signifi- cant control over limiting access to her message ar- chives. The practice also would complicate the State De- partment's legal responsi- bilities in finding and turn- ing over official emails in response to any investiga- tions, lawsuits or public re- cords requests. The depart- ment would be in the posi- tion of accepting Clinton's assurances she was surren- dering everything required that was in her control. Congress said it learned last summer about Clin- ton's use of a private email account to conduct official State Department business during its investigation of the Benghazi attacks on a U.S. mission in which four Americans died. "It doesn't matter if the server was in Foggy Bot- tom, Chappaqua or Bora Bora," House Speaker John Boehner said. "The Beng- hazi Select Committee needs to see all of these emails, because the Amer- ican people deserve all of the facts." The chairman of the Benghazi committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told re- porters: "I want the docu- ments. Sooner rather than later." Democrats called it a fishing expedition. "Everything I've seen so far has led me to believe that this is an effort to go after Hillary Clinton, pe- riod," said Rep. Elijah Cum- mings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the commit- tee. The questions about Clin- ton's email practices left the Obama administration in an awkward position. At one point, the State Depart- ment directed reporters to contact Clinton, who has not publicly commented about her emails. The White House said it was her responsibility to make sure any emails about official business weren't deleted from her private server. Meanwhile, the AP said it was considering legal ac- tion under the Freedom of Information Act against the State Department for failing to turn over some emails covering Clinton's tenure as the nation's top diplomat after waiting more than one year. The department has never sug- gested that it doesn't pos- sess all Clinton's emails. It was not immediately clear exactly where Clin- ton's computer server was run, but a business record for the Internet connection it used was registered un- der the home address for her residence as early as August 2010. The customer was listed as Eric Hoteham. An aide to then-first lady Clinton was identified in a 2002 congressional report as Eric Hothem, whose name is spelled differently than in the Internet re- cords. Hothem, a financial adviser in Washington, was not available to take an AP reporter's phone call at his office Wednesday. He was a special assistant to Clin- ton as far back as 1997 and considered one of the fami- ly's information technology experts. A parody Twitter account for Hoteham appeared Wednesday after the AP cited the records, sending satirical tweets supporting Clinton's campaign. Ho- teham's name had not ap- peared with that spelling in public-record databases, campaign contribution re- cords or online background searches. In most cases, individu- als who operate their own email servers are techni- cal experts or users so con- cerned about issues of pri- vacy and surveillance they take matters into their own hands. Clinton — who emailed so frequently using her BlackBerry as secretary of state that it became an In- ternet meme — is partic- ularly sensitive about dis- closures of personal files based on her experiences in confronting congressio- nal investigations and civil lawsuits during her hus- band's election and pres- idency and her own roles as first lady, senator, presi- dential candidate and Cab- inet official. State Depar tment spokeswoman Marie Harf said Clinton as Cabinet sec- retary never used a govern- ment email account on the agency's separate network for sharing classified in- formation, which Clinton would have been prohibited from forwarding to her pri- vate email account. "She had other ways of communicating through classified email through her assistants or her staff, with people, when she needed to use a classified setting," Harf said. PERSONAL ACCOUNT House committee subpoenas Clinton emails in Benghazi probe PABLOMARTINEZMONSIVAIS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. By Jonathan Drew The Associated Press WILSON, N.C. The crew of a truck carrying a load of gold bars had just pulled off the interstate in North Carolina when, the two men told police, a seem- ingly ordinary episode of carsickness turned into a multimillion-dollar heist. Three days later, author- ities said they were suspi- cious that Sunday's road- side robbery might have been an inside job. As soon as the guards stopped on the shoul- der because one of them wasn't feeling well, three robbers drove up in a cargo van and confronted them at gunpoint, yell- ing "Policia!" and order- ing the crew to lie on the ground. The robbers tied their hands behind their backs and marched them into nearby woods, author- ities said. The thieves then set out orange traffic cones while they gathered up 275 pounds of gold bars worth $4.8 million and fled, leaving the two guards stranded along Interstate 95 as drivers zoomed by. On Wednesday, author- ities released search war- rants in which detectives raised questions about the initial accounts of the heist. "The fact that the truck was robbed immediately upon pulling over at an unannounced stop is sus- picious in and of itself," the warrant stated, add- ing that the truck had no external markings indicat- ing the cargo. The warrant said the suspects tried to steal the truck but could not get it started, indi- cating they did not know how to operate a commer- cial truck. At a news conference, Wilson County Sheriff Calvin Woodard said the guards were still consid- ered victims, not suspects, but that all possibilities were being investigated. Asked to elaborate on the warrants that were filed the day after the heist, the sheriff said the documents were written in a hurry before the victims, who spoke little English, could be thoroughly inter- viewed in Spanish. The strange scene un- folded around dusk Sun- day in a rural area about 50 miles east of Raleigh. Earlier in the day, the guards had stopped for gas in Dillon, South Carolina, near the North Carolina line. As they kept driving, one of them started to feel sick and said he smelled gas, Woodard said. However, after depu- ties arrived, a mechanic found no problems with the truck, the sheriff said. The guards got out of the tractor-trailer with- out their guns, according to the sheriff, who said it was a company security vi- olation to leave the truck without their weapons. Woodard said that the robbers cut a padlock, but there were no other secu- rity measures to stop them. When the robbers were gone, the guards drew the attention of startled mo- torists, several of whom called 911 to report see- ing uniformed men run- ning into the highway with their hands bound, motioning for help. "They've got their hands zip-tied behind their backs, and they're out in the road to try to flag peo- ple down to call the po- lice," one caller said. The caller described the scene to the dispatcher and waited in his car for at least 12 minutes for of- ficers to arrive, according to recordings released by Wilson County authorities. The man told the dis- patcher he did not feel safe leaving his vehicle. One of the guards can be heard trying to relate de- tails though his window. TRACTOR-TRAILER Crew says carsickness led to heist of gold bars 2 Ifso,youlikelyknowbynow! But if you have not yet placed an ad to say THANK YOU to your customers who voted you #1 in your business category, better call your Daily News advertising representative right away! 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