Reports: State Dept. to give 5K pages of documents to Benghazi panel

The State Department will hand over 5,000 pages of documents Tuesday to the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks on U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, according to multiple media reports.

In exchange for the documents, the committee will cancel what promised to be a contentious hearing Wednesday with Secretary of State John Kerry's chief of staff, John Finer, Politico reports.

"This was never about a hearing, but about getting the documents," the committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told The Washington Post. "The Committee is not interested in drama, we want the facts."

Gowdy did say the committee will reschedule the hearing if the State Department fails to hand over the documents.

"If the State Department does not fulfill this production, or if production continues to be anemic and underwhelming, we will move forward with scheduling a compliance hearing before the committee," Gowdy said, according to The Hill.

Gowdy and other Republicans on the committee planned to grill Finer on what they consider to be the very slow pace by the State Department in turning over emails from Clinton's top staffers, according to Politico.

The documents that will be given to the panel on Tuesday are not expected to contain any emails from former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Post reports. Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct official business during her tenure at State has generated heated debate and the Justice Department is now looking into whether classified information was compromised by the use of that private server.