Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify October. 22 before the House committee investigating the deaths of four Americans in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, her presidential campaign said Saturday. Clinton’s lawyers and the Republican-led committee have been negotiating over the terms under which she might appeal before the committee.
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The committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, initially requested that the committee interview Clinton in a classified session.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a campaign event in New York this month.
But Clinton’s unusual use of a private server for her email while secretary of State has emerged as a major focus of the panel’s work.
Boehner said in a statement Friday that “if Secretary Clinton truly has nothing to hide, she can prove it by immediately turning over her server to the proper authorities and allowing them to examine the complete record”. The inspector general for the intelligence community also notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the possible compromise of classified information being kept outside of government control, in reference to Clinton’s private server.
Though the referral to the Justice Department does not seek a criminal probe and does not specifically target Clinton, the latest steps by government investigators will further fuel the partisan furor surrounding the 55,000 pages of emails the State Department already has under review.
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The testimony will be public, Merrill said.
