Hillary Clinton to testify before Benghazi panel in October

Hillary Clinton will testify in October before the committee investigating that 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans.

The committee would not immediately confirm that date. It follows months of wrangling between the Republican-led committee and Clinton, whose allies accuse the panel of conducting a fishing expedition for damaging material that might be used against her as she runs for president in 2016.

The chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., initially requested a private interview.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Friday, July 24, 2015, at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.

In addition to the attack, Clinton has been under the congressional spotlight because of her use of personal email server. “Entities from the highest levels of two branches of government have now made that clear”. The IG also sent a memo to members of Congress indicating that “potentially hundreds of classified emails” were among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided to the State Department – a concern the office said it raised with FBI counterintelligence officials. The inspector general for the intelligence community also notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the possible compromise of classified information being kept outside of government control, in reference to Clinton’s private server.

The testimony will be public, Merrill said.