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 ABC's "This Week" said that top Republicans briefed the program
about Speaker John Boehner's plan to investigate Clinton's use of
her personal email address when she was secretary of state from 2009
to 2013
However, the network did not state whether the probe would be
separate from an ongoing House investigation and additional actions
being considered by an oversight committee.
Clinton's failure to use a government email address has sparked a
storm of criticism even as she lays the groundwork for an expected
2016 presidential bid. At a news conference last Tuesday, she said
her private email address was a "convenience" so she would not have
to carry two mobile devices.
Also on Tuesday, Clinton's office released a detailed document about
her email use and the steps she had taken to provide relevant
official emails to the State Department.
 Clinton sent and received 62,320 emails while at the State
Department, and after a review process, 30,490 official emails were
provided to the department and 31,830 were withheld as private and
personal records, the document said.
Clinton's attorneys used key search terms, such as official
government account addresses and countries relevant to ongoing
congressional probes, to identify official emails, according to the
document.
These search was conducted in addition to reading every single
email, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill confirmed Sunday.
Clinton's use of a personal email address first surfaced as
congressional panels investigated the 2012 attack on a U.S.
diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
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Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, the head of a House committee
examining Benghazi, has said he would like Clinton to testify before
Congress by April, when she is expected to formally launch her
presidential campaign.
Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz, who chairs an oversight
committee on government reform, said last week that his panel would
cooperate with Gowdy's and "continue looking into this matter."
Boehner's office declined to comment on the ABC News report. A Gowdy
representative said that its Benghazi probe would continue.
Gowdy told "Fox News Sunday" that there are "huge gaps" in the
Clinton email record provided to the committee.
"I just can't trust her lawyers to make the determination that the
public is getting everything they're entitled to," Gowdy said.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker; Editing by Frances Kerry and Christian
Plumb)
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