Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is moving to try to head off a dispute about her use of private email while in office, insisting she has nothing to hide.
She has asked the US State Department to release a trove of mails dealing with her official duties.
The Republican-fronted committee still probing the 2011 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has been demanding access to emails Clinton sent out while being Secretary of State using a private email account.
It has been revealed the perceived Democratic presidential front-runner didn't use an official US State Department email account when sending out most of her correspondence during her time as Secretary of State.
This has fueled Republican calls that both her and the Obama administration tried to cover-up events in the aftermath of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
Clinton's successor, current US Secretary of State John Kerry, says his department is working to get all of Clinton's emails released to the public as quickly as they can.
"The State Department has had access to a wide array of Secretary Clinton's records including emails between her and department officials with the state.gov accounts, as well as cables, as they do for every Secretary of State. So, we are now in the process of appropriately reviewing those for public release, as we do for any document for public release."
The emerging scandal has put Clinton in an awkward position politically, as many observers have suggested she has been poised to announce her presidential bid in the next couple of weeks.
