Clinton says she’s confident about proper handling of emails

Gowdy has maintained, however, that he is only interested in getting to the bottom of the Benghazi attack and Republicans have complimented him for leaving politics out of it.

Merrill, however, responded with a second statement disputing that negotiations were continuing.

“We all have a responsibility to get this right”, Clinton said.

Clinton, the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has been criticized for using a private email account during her years as America’s top diplomat. She has said that she had no direct role in security decisions surrounding the U.S. facilities, but Republican critics claim that her State Department denied protections that might have prevented the attack.

Clinton has long offered to testify at a public session, and she was initially scheduled to appear in May.

US House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy arrives for a closed door meeting in the House Visitors Center at the US Capitol June 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. “This is all about my desire to have transparency and make the information public”. The office has not suggested any wrongdoing by Clinton, according to U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the referral publicly. A tentative date of October 22 has-been set.

“Her email arrangement clearly falls within the scope of the Select Committee’s jurisdiction”, Ware said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she neither sent nor received materials considered classified at the time through the private e-mail account she used while serving as secretary of state.

The email should also not have been used for classified information. Government rules say classified data should never be sent via email but over one of several secured computer networks operated by the U.S. government specifically for such sensitive information. Charles McCullough III, the inspector general for the intelligence agencies. The Times altered its initial story after complaints from the Clinton camp, along with the Justice Department’s clarification that the inspector general had not requested a criminal investigation.

“So I did, but then I said, ‘OK, so let’s make it public, ‘” she said. But a federal judge this month chastised the State Department for moving too slowly in providing The Associated Press with thousands of emails submitted through the Freedom of Information Act.

A statement from the intelligence inspector general, I. The inspector general for the State Department, Steve Linick, was appointed by President Obama in 2013.