希拉里·克林顿：希望公众看我的电邮

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, under fire for using her personal email address to conduct official business during her tenure as America's top diplomat, says she has asked the State Department to release her emails.

"I want the public to see my email," Clinton said late Wednesday night in a brief Twitter message. "I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."

Clinton broke her silence on the matter after her use of her personal email address was revealed by the The New York Times, which added that she may have violated federal records laws that require archiving official government documents.

The story took on an added dimension Wednesday when a story published by The Associated Press said Clinton used a personal email server based in her family's home in New York.

The revelations prompted the chairman of the special House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya to subpoena Clinton's emails related to the incident.