Hillary Clinton grilled for 11 hours on 2012 deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi

October 23, 2015 08:48

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her record before the special House panel investigating the 2012 fatal attacks on Americans in Libya, rejecting Republican accusations that she neglected a deteriorating security situation and then mischaracterized the nature of the violence.

The 11-hour hearing, while not breaking any factual ground, gave Republicans on the committee their first chance to grill the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination about what happened at the US mission complex in Benghazi, the biggest State Department tragedy to occur on her watch. The attack left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J Christopher Stevens.

Clinton remained unruffled throughout the day and night and did not appear to suffer any new political damage.

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