U.S. House Benghazi panel grills Clinton aide Huma Abedin for six hours, Turmoil swirled afresh about the Republican-controlled Benghazi board on Friday as it questioned a chief abettor to Hillary Clinton, bidding beginning accusations that the console was created to accident the Democratic front-runner's presidential campaign.
In a six-hour bankrupt aperture interview, associates and agents approved answers from Huma Abedin, for years a abutting acquaintance of Clinton. Abedin has served as the above secretary of state's abettor at the time of the 2012 attacks on U.S. adept accessories in Benghazi, Libya that dead four Americans.
Democratic Representative and console affiliate Elijah Cummings told reporters that summoning Abedin aloft added questions about whether the console is "a aborigine adjourned accomplishment to derail the antagonism of Hillary Clinton."
Cummings said Abedin, now advance carnality administrator of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, had no responsibilities accompanying to the tragedy the board was set up to investigate.
Abedin said little about the interview. But she apprehend a handwritten account afterward, adage she "answered all of their questions to the best of my ability."
"I came actuality today to be as accessible as I could be to the committee. I capital to account the account of those absent and afflicted in the Benghazi attacks," Abedin said, abacus she was "honored" to plan for Clinton at State and "proud" of her account there.
Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican console member, said Abedin frequently answered questions with responses of "'I don't remember' and 'I don't recollect.'"
He did not acknowledge the questions that prompted such answers.
Representative Trey Gowdy, the panel's Republican chairman, said Abedin's affidavit would abetment the board in autograph a final report.
Though not in attendance, Gowdy said in a account that the console "greatly appreciates her alertness to yield the time to voluntarily arise afore the committee."
Abedin's actualization came beneath than a anniversary afore Clinton is to arise afore the panel.
Organized originally to delving the 2012 advance on U.S. accessories in Benghazi, Libya, the board has been beneath advance by Democrats, who say it is a accessory analysis unleashed by the Republican-majority House.
The board has appear beneath abnormally acrid criticism back Representative Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 House Republican, appropriate in a contempo television account that the delving had helped to drive down Clinton's presidential poll ratings.
Cummings said Friday that the panel's calling in Abedin was added affirmation that McCarthy had been cogent the accuracy about the committee's absolute aims.
Democratic Representative and console affiliate Elijah Cummings told reporters that summoning Abedin aloft added questions about whether the console is "a aborigine adjourned accomplishment to derail the antagonism of Hillary Clinton."
Cummings said Abedin, now advance carnality administrator of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, had no responsibilities accompanying to the tragedy the board was set up to investigate.
Abedin said little about the interview. But she apprehend a handwritten account afterward, adage she "answered all of their questions to the best of my ability."
"I came actuality today to be as accessible as I could be to the committee. I capital to account the account of those absent and afflicted in the Benghazi attacks," Abedin said, abacus she was "honored" to plan for Clinton at State and "proud" of her account there.
Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican console member, said Abedin frequently answered questions with responses of "'I don't remember' and 'I don't recollect.'"
He did not acknowledge the questions that prompted such answers.
Representative Trey Gowdy, the panel's Republican chairman, said Abedin's affidavit would abetment the board in autograph a final report.
Though not in attendance, Gowdy said in a account that the console "greatly appreciates her alertness to yield the time to voluntarily arise afore the committee."
Abedin's actualization came beneath than a anniversary afore Clinton is to arise afore the panel.
Organized originally to delving the 2012 advance on U.S. accessories in Benghazi, Libya, the board has been beneath advance by Democrats, who say it is a accessory analysis unleashed by the Republican-majority House.
The board has appear beneath abnormally acrid criticism back Representative Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 House Republican, appropriate in a contempo television account that the delving had helped to drive down Clinton's presidential poll ratings.
Cummings said Friday that the panel's calling in Abedin was added affirmation that McCarthy had been cogent the accuracy about the committee's absolute aims.
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