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(Video Above: Congresswoman Martha Roby questions former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testified Thursday before the House Select Committee Investigating the Terror Attacks on Benghazi, to which Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL2) was appointed. During the first round of questioning Roby presented emails from Clinton’s staff at the State Department that she says don’t match up with what Clinton testified.
“Also the secretary asked last week if we still have a presence in Benghazi,” read the email Roby presented. “I think she would be upset to hear ‘yes, we do.’ But because we don’t have enough security, they are on lockdown.”
Clinton said among the reasons Americans were in Libya was to slow the proliferation of weapons, but the State Department faced Libyans who said they “did not really feel that they could welcome a peacekeeping mission.”
Roby interrupted saying, “If I may, I hear what you’re saying but this email says something very, very different.”
“I can’t speak to that,” Clinton shot back. “I can just tell you what I was doing and I was doing a lot.”
“Sure, but this was your staff and it has to make me wonder if they had this conversation with you, why they would make it up,” Roby said.
The first round of questioning alternated between Republicans questioning Clinton and Democrats defending her, attempting to turn the hearing into an indictment of GOP intentions.
Related: Roby: Clinton is ‘just one piece of a much larger investigation’
Right before the lunch break Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings interrupted committee chairman Trey Gowdy during a line of questioning pertaining to questionable emails between Clinton and former advisor Sidney Blumenthal, diverting the press’s attention and causing a premature end to Gowdy’s questions.
Things started to get heated during the Clinton hearing Thursday morning. Read more on @YHN https://t.co/UbyqQ1deMO
— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizTBeShears) October 22, 2015
