Rep. Susan Brooks

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Rep. Susan Brooks has used a collection of emails as a way to suggest that the Obama administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lost interest in Libya in the months before the deadly attacks in Benghazi in September 2012. 

At a House committee hearing on Benghazi, the Indiana Republican showed two piles of printed emails that she says show messages related to Benghazi and Libya.

Brooks says the pile from 2011 has 795 emails, and the pile from 2012 has 67 emails.

Clinton denies there was any diminished interest in Libya. She says most of her work wasn't done by email, but in personal meetings and briefings, secure telephone calls, diplomatic cables and other types of communication.

Clinton says she didn't even have a computer on her desk.

Brooks was born in Fort Wayne and currently represents northern Indianapolis suburbs in Congress.