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Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is a prominent American politician and member of the Democratic Party, best known for her role as the 67th Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama. Prior to that, she served as the United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Clinton has been a significant figure in American politics for decades, advocating for issues such as healthcare reform, women's rights, and international diplomacy. Her tenure as Secretary of State included notable events such as the U.S. response to the Arab Spring and the military intervention in Libya.

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Oct 21, 2015

The state department had between 90 and 95 percent of all the ones that were work-related. They were already on the system.

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Oct 21, 2015

There was no partisan effort. People rose above politics.

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Oct 21, 2015

Ambassadors in the field are engaged in many different tasks. They are basically our chief representative of the President of the United States.

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Oct 21, 2015

I want to reiterate what I said to Congresswoman Sanchez.

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Oct 21, 2015

I don't see the relevance of any of those questions in terms of what actually happened in Benghazi.

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Oct 21, 2015

This was not a facility that had the capacity to handle classified material, and there was, to the best of our information, Congressman, no classified material at the Benghazi facility.

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Oct 21, 2015

It's deeply, deeply distressing when any of our facilities or our personnel are in danger.

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Oct 21, 2015

We will never prevent every act of terrorism or achieve perfect security and that we inevitably must accept a level of risk.

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Oct 21, 2015

There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received.

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Oct 21, 2015

I spoke about it because I wanted it to be clear to every government around the world that we were going to look to them to protect our facilities.

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Oct 21, 2015

I just---- Respectfully disagree with that, Congressman.

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Oct 21, 2015

We should have a much more orderly process for our budget.

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Oct 21, 2015

There is, of course, information that we were obtaining about the increasingly dangerous environment in Libya.

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Oct 21, 2015

We turned over every work-related email.

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Oct 21, 2015

The personnel rules and the laws that govern those decisions were followed very carefully.

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Oct 21, 2015

We want to honor that by continuing to do what we can to support the Libyan people's transition.

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Oct 21, 2015

Well, Congressman, of course, I made it abundantly clear that we had to do everything we could to protect our people.

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Oct 21, 2015

The United States played a major role in the first election that the Libyan people had in 51 years.

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Oct 21, 2015

There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.

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Oct 21, 2015

I thought more about what happened than all of you put together. I have lost more sleep than all of you put together. I have been racking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done.

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Oct 21, 2015

I believe we have to use every tool at our disposal, lead with diplomacy, support with development, and when necessary, as a last resort, not a first choice, defense.

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Oct 21, 2015

It's good to remind ourselves and the rest of the world that this couldn't have happened without us.

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Oct 21, 2015

I think it is important that you, as Members of Congress, looking into these issues, that you look at the totality so we can learn the best lessons to try to----

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