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Hillary Clinton: I would like to think that anything of that magnitude and the loss of life could have in some way been preventable.

On the recordOctober 21, 2015
I would like to think that anything of that magnitude and the loss of life could have in some way been preventable.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton reflects on the preventability of the Benghazi attack.

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