Email-gate began with a 2012 letter from Darrel Issa to Clinton regarding her use of private email. [View all]

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And even that wasn't really the beginning as Issa's "investigation" had begun even earlier. It did not, repeat not by any stretch of the RWNJ imagination begin with John Kerry. That is SBVT lunacy. Here's an April 2015 NYT article about Issa's 2012 letter:

Hillary Clinton Was Asked About Email 2 Years Ago
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT - NYT - APRIL 14, 2015

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly asked by congressional investigators in a December 2012 letter whether she had used a private email account while serving as secretary of state, according to letters obtained by The New York Times.

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The query was posed to Mrs. Clinton in a Dec. 13, 2012, letter from Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Mr. Issa was leading an investigation into how the Obama administration handled its officials’ use of personal email.

“Have you or any senior agency official ever used a personal email account to conduct official business?” Mr. Issa wrote to Mrs. Clinton. “If so, please identify the account used.”

Mr. Issa also asked Mrs. Clinton, “Does the agency require employees to certify on a periodic basis or at the end of their employment with the agency they have turned over any communications involving official business that they have sent or received using nonofficial accounts?”

Mr. Issa’s letter also sought written documentation of the department’s policies for the use of personal email for government business. Mrs. Clinton left the State Department on Feb. 1, 2013, seven weeks after the letter was sent to her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/politics/hillary-clintonwas-asked-about-email-2-years-ago.html