Democratic lawmakers criticize Clinton email investigations

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of lawmakers objected Thursday to what they describe as the politicizing of two ongoing government reviews by of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email practices.

Four Democratic senators and three House members sent a letter to Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough and State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.

The inspectors general are conducting separate reviews of whether then-Secretary of State Clinton and her top aides mishandled sensitive information in emails that passed through a private server in the basement of her New York home.

Doug Welty, a spokesman for the State Department's inspector general, denied that partisan politics play any role in the investigators' work.