Hillary responds: 'I want public to see my email'

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing May 23, 2012, flanked by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, left, and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent out a Twitter message to followers about her growing email scandal, saying that she's asked her former government employer to release her correspondences for the world to see.

In a tweet, she wrote: "I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."

Meanwhile, State Department Marie Harf released a separate statement early Thursday morning that confirmed authorities were sifting through the messages to decide what's proper to release, Fox News reported.

"The State Department will review for public release the emails provided by Secretary Clinton to the Department, using a normal process that guides such releases," Harf said. "We will undertake this review as quickly as possible; given the sheer volume of the document set, this review will take some time to complete."

Clinton's presumptive White House run took a side road this week after it was revealed she used only a personal email account for all her government correspondences while at the State Department – and that she had actually set up a private server in her own home to deal with the messages. Critics say the private email account for government business represents both a massive security risk, and a huge transparency problem.

Congress responded to the revelations by announcing an investigation to determine if Clinton broke federal records laws by keeping her email messages off government servers, largely hidden from the public eye. A different House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left four Americans dead also announced it was issuing a subpoena for Clinton's emails, the Associated Press reported.

See Hillary Clinton's 2007 comments about how using secret email accounts shreds the Constitution:

Then, she said, "Our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret wiretaps, the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email accounts. It’s a stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent."