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The panel is probing actions taken by Clinton surrounding the attacks that left US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others dead
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Washington: Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will testify publicly on 22 October before a House panel investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, according to her spokesman Nick Merrill.
The Republican-led committee is investigating actions taken by Clinton, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, surrounding the attacks that left US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others dead.
Clinton had offered to testify publicly and finally reached an agreement to do so with the panel’s chairman, Republican Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Merrill said in an email on Saturday.
Clinton also has faced questions about her use of a personal email account and private computer server while she was secretary of state. The account contained some information that should have been classified and transmitted over a secure network, according to a report from the US intelligence community’s inspector general, Charles McCullough III.
The report said none of the emails reviewed by its office was labelled as classified. However, the federal watchdog asked the FBI to review whether potentially classified material had been jeopardized during a state department review of the documents in preparation for releasing them publicly.
The FBI referral followed a 29 June memo that McCullough and the state department’s inspector general sent to undersecretary of state Patrick Kennedy, saying that hundreds of emails in Clinton’s private account may improperly have contained classified material.
More Clinton emails are expected to be released by the state department next week, Merrill said.
“We want to ensure that appropriate procedures are followed as these emails are reviewed while not unduly delaying the release of her emails," he said. “We particularly do not want their release to be hampered by bureaucratic infighting among the intelligence community." Bloomberg
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