Benghazi panel denied ex-Hillary aide's request to publicly testify

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Benghazi panel denied ex-Hillary aide's request to publicly testify

By Rachael Bade and Josh Gerstein at Politico

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/benghazi-panel-deny-cheryl-mills-testify-hillary-clinton-213238#ixzz3kdcnETiH

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The House Benghazi Committee rejected a request from Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff at the State Department, to have her testimony occur in a public session later this week, a source close to Mills said.

Mills’ desire for open testimony — a request made because she fears Republicans will leak selected information that casts her in a negative light — is just the first disagreement in what’s likely to be a tense session Thursday, when she appears before the panel a day before Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top policy guru, is also hauled in for questions.

The private interviews with Clinton’s top brass represent the highest-profile grillings yet for the panel probing the cause of, or avoidable factors that could have led to, the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that left four Americans dead.

Lawmakers — who don’t often attend the closed-door interviews with Benghazi witnesses, allowing staff investigators to take the lead — are making the rare move of returning to Washington, D.C., early from their summer break to be present for the interviews with Mills, who no longer works for Clinton, and Sullivan, who remains Clinton’s No. 1 policy staffer on the campaign.


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1. This is so politicized it's sickening. The fact that Republicans want this behind closed doors tells

you everything you need to know about their intentions.

[DURHAM D]

2. I think they are afraid she will kick ass and take names.

She is a bad ass attorney.

I remember her in the Senate for the Clinton impeachment.

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3. Gowdy's crusade to get Hillary knows no bounds.