Dems release closed-door Benghazi interview transcript ahead of Clinton testimony
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By Elise Viebeck and Rosalind S. Helderman October 21 at 8:00 PM
Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Wednesday released the full transcript of the panel’s closed-door interview with former Hillary Clinton chief-of-staff Cheryl Mills, one day before Clinton is set to testify at a high-profile hearing on Capitol Hill.
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The transcript, which totals 307 pages, provides a look at how Republicans approach private interviews with people in Clinton’s inner circle amid accusations that the committee is politically targeting the Democratic presidential front-runner........
Republican investigators spent considerable time asking Mills what Clinton knew on the night of the attacks, how she found out and whether she was engaged with the government’s response.
Describing Clinton as very engaged, Mills said the secretary’s role was in part to ensure that Libya was providing sufficient protection to U.S. diplomats and to alert the Libyan government about the coming U.S. response where protection was lacking.
“It was my experience that she was, obviously, not only on the night of but as we were looking down the road on other instances, frequently either calling leaders or negotiating for our people to go in — in one instance, we had to do that, and they had to go in a particular way — and also having conversations, in some instances cajoling, in some instances demanding that these countries protect our facilities,” Mills told the investigators............
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I wish these had been released a while ago--for the Hillary campaign to study. That said--I hope she gets a good nights sleep
tonight.
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Former Clinton aide Cheryl Mills (second from right) with House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (second from left) and ranking member Rep. Elijah E. Cummings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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