Hillary Clinton offered to publish her correspondence.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted to the growing scandal surrounding her email, offering to publish her letters.

“I want the public to see my emails,” she wrote on Twitter.

This statement came after emails from Clinton’s personal accounts were requested by a congressional committee investigating the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi in 2012. Then, as a result of the attack, the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed.

According to some information, while still holding the post of state secretary, a politician could use these mailboxes for business correspondence, which is a violation of federal law.

As a result, Clinton came under pressure shortly before the next presidential election, in which she is expected to take part.

55 Thousands of Pages

“I asked the authorities to publish them [the letters]. They responded that they would consider releasing them as soon as possible,” Clinton tweeted.

On Wednesday, it turned out that Clinton had her own Internet server installed at her home in New York.

The fact that from 2009 to 2013 year Hillary Clinton did not have a business mailing address, the State Department told the New York Times.

Former employees of the National Archives and Records Administration told the publication that using a personal mailing address for business purposes is a serious violation of the law.

Some of them cited the fact that Hillary Clinton’s personal email address could easily have been hacked by hackers.

However, Hillary Clinton's press secretary Nick Merrill said she complied with the "spirit and letter" of the law, despite using personal email for official purposes.

The State Department also defended Clinton, stressing that there was no ban on using a personal account in 2009-2013, reports Reuters.

The case is complicated by media reports that the Internet server at Clinton’s home was registered to someone else’s name by one Eric Hatham.

Correspondence of federal officials is considered government documents, and after Clinton left office in 2013, her assistants handed over 55 thousands of pages of correspondence to the archive.

Democrats in the Committee of Investigations have criticized the reclamation of Clinton’s letters, calling it a politically motivated attack by the Republicans.

“Everything I've seen so far leads me to believe that this is an attempt to put pressure on Hillary Clinton, period,” said Congressman Elijah Cummings.