Subpoena time: Emails sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Hillary

Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 even though she has yet to formally declare her candidacy, has come under scrutiny from Republicans who accuse her State Department of failing to protect diplomatic personnel.

Gowdy said the State Department had asked him not to disclose the names of people whose emails were sought. Gowdy has said that without the emails, no congressional committee investigating the Benghazi attack could claim to have issued a definitive report.

Clinton has said that although she should have used a government email account, she violated no rules. Democrats say that Benghazi has been thoroughly investigated by several congressional panels and that Gowdy’s committee’s efforts are politically motivated and aimed at undermining Clinton’s expected presidential candidacy.