The House Select Committee on Benghazi has subpoenaed Hillary Clinton's personal emails related to the Benghazi attack.
The committee — which is investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Libya — demanded "all communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to Libya," according to a statement. The subpoenas also include State Department communications of "other individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation."
Committee spokesman Jamal Ware told BuzzFeed News that the subpoena was about "painting a full record" of what happened in Benghazi before, during, and after the attack.
"It really comes down to transparency," he said, adding that Clinton's use of a private email account "poses challenges."
The subpoena follows the revelation, first published in The New York Times, that Clinton almost exclusively used a personal email account while serving as Secretary of State. The use of the personal address, hdr22@clintonemail.com, may have violated federal law requiring official communications to be retained by the government.
The committee also issued a statement Wednesday calling Clinton's use of the personal email account "problematic" and said it "raises significant issues for transparency."
"The American people have a right to a full accounting of all the former Secretary's emails, and the Committee is committed to working to uncover all the facts," the statement added.
The Associate Press also is considering legal action after waiting for, in some cases, years for documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents included Clinton's schedules and calendars.
"We believe it's critically important that government officials and agencies be held accountable to the voters," Karen Kaiser, the AP's general counsel, told The New York Times. "In this instance, we've exhausted our administrative remedies in pursuit of important documents and are considering legal action."