Hillary Clinton Endures Marathon Grilling On Benghazi Attack

Hillary Clinton has endured an 11-hour hearing before a Congress committee over the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

The former secretary of state said she took responsibility and introduced reforms after the attack that killed four Americans, including the US envoy.
She deflected criticism that she did not do enough to protect the mission.

Her Democrat party says the Republican-led panel is a witch-hunt trying to harm her presidential bid.
Despite the committee sitting in four consecutive hours-long sessions on Thursday, the hearing yielded little new information.
Mrs Clinton remained composed during the highly-anticipated testimony, amid several heated exchanges between Republicans and her Democrat allies.
In her opening statement, she said she had asked Chris Stevens, one of the four killed, to go to Libya as US envoy.
"After the attacks I stood next to President Obama as Marines carried his casket," she said.
"I took responsibility, and as part of that before I left office I launched reforms to better protect our people in the field and help reduce the chance of another tragedy happening in the future."

(BBC)