Clinton to testify before Benghazi committee in October

[villager]

Source: CNN


Hillary Clinton will publicly testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Oct. 22, her spokesman said on Saturday.

Clinton was invited to appear before the committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack earlier this week, Nick Merrill told CNN, and the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate accepted that invitation on Friday.

Merrill said Clinton was "pleased" to receive the invitation to a public hearing from committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy.

The agreement comes after a protracted back and forth between the Republican-controlled committee and Clinton's allies on Capitol Hill and in Washington. Republicans contend that the committee is solely interested in looking into the terrorist attack that killed four Americans -- including Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens -- while Clinton was secretary of state. Clinton's supporters argue that Gowdy's committee has become nothing more than a political arm of the Republican Party, looking to score points against Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Clinton agreed to testify before the committee in May. Gowdy, however, rejected that offer and asked the secretary to appear twice -- once on her exclusive use of a private email server while at State and another in regard to the Benghazi attack.

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[groundloop]

1. do those desperate bastard EVER give up?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Another kangaroo court

I expect some here will be giddy though.

[Adrahil]

3. She's gonna rip them anew one! nt

[Fred Sanders]

4. "I will be pleased to attend for the fourth time after, I lost count, how many official reports to discuss your inability to pin anything on me".

[valerief]

5. I'm a Bernie fan myself, but this Benghazi waste of time and money is total bullshit.

How many ways can we hate the GOP Congress? Oh, the number trails to infinity.

[villager]

6. Also a Bernie fan, but looking forward to Hillary's showdown with this windmill-tilting committee

Hope she smashes them into pieces -- verbally, that is!

[Red1]

7. BS..

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[Cryptoad]

8. Benghazi,,,, Drink!

[Purveyor]

9. NYT: Aides for Hillary Clinton and Benghazi Committee Dispute Testimony Plan

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANJULY 25, 2015

WASHINGTON — Amid renewed controversy surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of private email for government work, a dispute erupted on Saturday over when and how she would publicly testify before the House select committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

Mrs. Clinton’s aides announced Saturday morning that she had accepted an invitation to testify on Oct. 22. But a spokesman for the Republican-led committee said hours later that no agreement had been reached.

And by day’s end, it was not clear what exactly they were arguing over.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said she accepted the committee’s invitation on Friday, the same day that inspectors general for the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies said they had discovered classified information on the private email account Mrs. Clinton used while she was secretary of state. The inspectors general said the secret information should never have been stored outside secure government systems.

Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said in a statement Saturday that the campaign had reviewed the statements by the inspectors general.

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