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Hillary Clinton parries conservative jabs in marathon House Benghazi hearing
Source: The Guardian
Hillary Clinton parries conservative jabs in marathon House Benghazi hearing
Democratic presidential candidate takes wind out of debate over private emails
in morning session with details of protocol for sensitive memos
Dan Roberts, Lauren Gambino and Ben Jacobs in Washington
Thursday 22 October 2015 20.20 BST
Hillary Clinton skewered critics of her private email during a fiery opening to the presidential candidate’s long-awaited showdown before US lawmakers on Thursday, revealing that she did not have a computer in her office as secretary of state and received sensitive memos in locked briefcases that were removed immediately.
The rare glimpse into State Department security protocols took the wind out of conservative challenges which relied heavily on electronic disclosures, particularly messages found on a controversial private computer server.
Discovery of the server has overshadowed Clinton’s run for the White House and the congressional select committee on Benghazi that uncovered it. As the Democratic frontrunner prepared for day-long testimony before the Republican-controlled House group, critics of the committee argued that it has strayed from its remit of investigating the murder of Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the 2012 terrorist attack.
Yet as several former prosecutors on the committee leaned on this digital evidence trail to prove Clinton had failed to monitor deteriorating security conditions in Libya, she pulled a metaphorical rug out from a stack of printed emails presented to her by congresswoman Susan Brooks of Indiana.
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Democratic presidential candidate takes wind out of debate over private emails
in morning session with details of protocol for sensitive memos
Dan Roberts, Lauren Gambino and Ben Jacobs in Washington
Thursday 22 October 2015 20.20 BST
Hillary Clinton skewered critics of her private email during a fiery opening to the presidential candidate’s long-awaited showdown before US lawmakers on Thursday, revealing that she did not have a computer in her office as secretary of state and received sensitive memos in locked briefcases that were removed immediately.
The rare glimpse into State Department security protocols took the wind out of conservative challenges which relied heavily on electronic disclosures, particularly messages found on a controversial private computer server.
Discovery of the server has overshadowed Clinton’s run for the White House and the congressional select committee on Benghazi that uncovered it. As the Democratic frontrunner prepared for day-long testimony before the Republican-controlled House group, critics of the committee argued that it has strayed from its remit of investigating the murder of Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the 2012 terrorist attack.
Yet as several former prosecutors on the committee leaned on this digital evidence trail to prove Clinton had failed to monitor deteriorating security conditions in Libya, she pulled a metaphorical rug out from a stack of printed emails presented to her by congresswoman Susan Brooks of Indiana.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/hillary-clinton-benghazi-attack-hearing
