Clinton was secretary of state at the time.
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“Clinton said that “some” people had wanted to use the video to justify the attack” and said she rejected that justification.
Several also lamented that the hearings were, as RedState’s Erick Erickson said, “a waste of time”.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the committee a “political sham” that dishonors the victims.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said he and other Democrats on the panel “learned absolutely nothing” during Thursday’s 11-hour hearing or during the 17-month investigation that preceded it.
The five Democrats on the 12-member committee announced their decision Friday, a day after Clinton’s marathon testimony before the panel.
And it reflected a few of the raw emotion the deadly violence continues to provoke, something Mrs Clinton will have to face over the next year of her White House bid even if the Republican-led special investigation loses steam.
Islamist militants stormed the compound and killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.
Finally, a Quinnipiac Poll released Friday morning showed Clinton leading her closest rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, by 11 percentage points in Iowa, which has the first presidential nominating contest in the country in February.
Taking another victory lap, said she welcomed a “good conversation where people come to the table ready to actually learn about what we can do” but added, ” I’m afraid that’s, you know, not necessarily what this particular committee is doing”. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee”, he said.
Republicans touched on a wide range of issues, from the US role in Libya and how the Obama administration initially portrayed the attacks, to the dozens of emails Clinton received from longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal. Seven other congressional committees have previously investigated the incident. Despite the plethora of evidence against Clinton revealed on Thursday, many liberal media outlets are saying that she emerged “unscathed” from the hearing. But said he did not know whether the embattled panel gained credibility.
Clinton’s daylong testimony was unlikely to end Republicans’ quest to use the heavily scrutinized Benghazi attack to question her judgment and leadership.
GOP lawmakers “badgered Hillary Clinton at every turn”. “It’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?” she said. Despite the attacks, “Hillary was rock solid”.
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While Clinton can’t take her path to the presidency for granted, there’s no one in the race with the kind of magnetic appeal Barack Obama demonstrated back in 2008 – which is to say there’s no Clinton-slayer.
