(Washington Times) Democrats on Friday accused Republicans running the special Benghazi investigation of turning former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email troubles into a political circus, saying there was no need to issue an official subpoena for them.
In a letter to Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the panel's Democrats called the subpoena "ill-considered" and said Mrs. Clinton has tried to cooperate with the investigation by turning emails over to the State Department, which has produced some of them to the committee.
Mrs. Clinton used her own private email server during her time as secretary of state and is now facing scrutiny over that move, which analysts said could violate open-records laws if she didn't scrupulously forward all of those messages to an official account for storage.