Hillary Clinton remains calm as hearing on Benghazi and emails erupts – live

Hillary Clinton remains calm as hearing on Benghazi and emails erupts – live

Source: the guardian





Thursday 22 October 2015 13.49 EDT


6m ago13:49
Summary

The hearing takes a break – here’s a quick summary of what’s happened during Hillary Clinton’s testimony to the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

Republicans interrogated Clinton on a range of subjects, not all clearly relevant to the 2012 terrorist attacks that killed four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens. Clinton defended herself in part by saying she only recommended policy on Libya, and that final decisions were in fact made by president Barack Obama.
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The former secretary of state also fired back at Republicans eager to cite newly released emails from her private server. Most of her meetings were on the phone or in person, she said, with some briefings “so top secret that they were brought into my room in a closed briefcase that I had immediately to read and return to the courier.” She repeated said: “I did not do the vast majority of my work from email.”
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Democrats defended Clinton and accused Republicans of waging a partisan campaign to undermine her poll numbers in the 2016 presidential race. “There won’t be anything definitive about the findings of this committee,” Adam Schiff said. “Those who want to believe the worst will believe the worst.”
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The committee adjourned with rambunctious squabbling over releasing all the relevant transcripts of the investigation, after Gowdy’s questions about one of Clinton’s friends rambled past the threshold of Democrats’ patience.


34m ago13:21

Trey Gowdy and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings are now bickering wildly, sitting right next to each other.

“Why don’t we just put the entire transcript out there and let the world see it? What do we have to hide!”

Gowdy gets defensive, asks what about all the other transcripts, rambles about parliamentary procedures, etc. His pate shines with sweat. “The only transcript you want released is this emails and Sidney Blumenthal.”

Cummings is fed up: “I’d like to have all of them released!”

Clinton watches, the hint of a smile on her face as she watches committee disintegrates out of Gowdy’s control. Gowdy threatens “if you think you’ve heard about Sidney Blumenthal, wait until the next round, and with that we’re adjourned.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/oct/22/hillary-clinton-benghazi-emails-committee-updates


There is some transcript also at website.