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I think it is just horrible that they would bring her in to testify!!



Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony

By Rachael Bade

10/15/15 11:45 PM EDT

Updated 10/16/15 10:57 AM EDT





Huma Abedin, the vice chairwoman of Hillary for America who also worked for Clinton at the State Department, had been scheduled weeks ago to testify Friday behind closed doors. | Getty
Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony

By Rachael Bade

10/15/15 11:45 PM EDT

Updated 10/16/15 10:57 AM EDT

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Thursday night slammed the House Select Committee on Benghazi for publicly announcing the Friday appearance of her top campaign organizer before the panel, dismissing it as “just another tactic in their partisan plan to go after Hillary Clinton.”

Huma Abedin, vice chairwoman of Hillary for America who also worked for Clinton at the State Department, had been scheduled weeks ago to testify Friday behind closed doors. On Thursday, the committee circulated a background memo that confirmed her appearance and noted that investigators would ask her only about Libya policy and events related to the 2012 attack.

But the campaign accused the panel of playing politics, particularly because the committee rarely announces appearances before they happen — and because Abedin wasn’t at the State Department the night of the Benghazi attacks, they said. The campaign also said Abedin, who was working part-time at State around the time of the attack, has limited “knowledge about the events surrounding Benghazi.”

“The Committee’s focus on Huma (as opposed to numerous intelligence and defense community officials still outstanding) is additional evidence that the actual attack in Benghazi, and its lessons about how we might better protect diplomats serving in dangerous places, are the last things on the committee’s mind,” the campaign said in a statement...............

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/clinton-abedin-benghazi-testimony-214867#ixzz3omCZExWS