WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks are demanding that the panel’s Republican chairman withdraw a subpoena for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal e-mails and schedule a hearing for Clinton to testify.
Democrats said in a letter Friday that the subpoena shows the panel led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., has taken a “very partisan and political turn.”
Democrats urged Gowdy to publish Clinton’s e-mails in their entirety to “help clear up any misperceptions.”
They said the committee should return to investigating the Benghazi attacks instead of being “a surrogate for the Republican National Committee.”
Gowdy spokesman Jamal Ware said Friday that the committee was moving forward with the subpoena. Gowdy will not release the e-mails “because doing so would imply we have all the e-mails,” Ware said. “… The committee may not know that we have a complete record for some time.”
