Clinton to testify before Benghazi committee in October [View all]
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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