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DonViejo

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:23 PM Oct 2012

Sec’y Clinton: Still no clear picture of Benghazi

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans heap criticism on Vice President Joe Biden for claiming the Obama administration was unaware of well-documented requests for extra security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday the precise details of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the compound still remain unclear.

One month after the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, Clinton said the administration is committed to uncovering the truth about what happened.

“There is much we still don’t know and I am the first to say that,” Clinton told reporters at the State Department after meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi.

“But as someone who has been at the center of this tragedy from the beginning, I do know this: there is nobody in this administration motivated by anything other than trying to understand what happened,” she said.

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