Clinton keeps cool during 11-hour House committee investigative panel

'I've lost more sleep than all of you put together'

Hillary Clinton stood before a House committee investigative panel for eleven hours on Thursday in her third testimony on the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The hearing is Clinton's third testimony on the Benghazi incident and has yielded little new information. Both Republicans and Democrats hurled pointed questions at her, but with her presidential candidacy at stake, Clinton remained calm and claimed the deaths in Benghazi were terrible, adding, "I've lost more sleep than all of you put together."

Indiana Republican Susan Brooks asked Clinton if she contacted Stevens when he requested more security, to which Clinton replied that she had. It was then Brooks presented a stack of files and informed the Madame Secretary that there was no record of her ever being in contact with Stevens. 

It was later mentioned that though she did not stay in contact with Ambassador Stevens, she did exchange daily emails and phone calls with longtime friend Sidney Blumenthal, her former advisor who was barred by the White House from working at the State Department for her.

When asked why Blumenthal had her personal email address and Ambassador Stevens did not, she side-stepped and claimed, "Sid Blumenthal was not my advisor, official or unofficial" and that Stevens had several ways to contact her "24-7."

Clinton was asked why Stevens' requests for more security went ignored, Clinton claimed she was responsible for a lot of things in Benghazi, "but I was not responsible for specific security requests."

Republican committee members continued to question Clinton, but it was the Democratic members who shifted from pointed questions to accusations and demands for the full story.
Elijah Cummings said, "I move we put into the record the entire transcript of Sidney Blumenthal," to which Trey Gowdy replied, "We're not going to take that up at a hearing."

Cummings then began to shout, saying, "You asked for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!"

Though talks among the committee members quickly escalated, Clinton sat back and remained calm and failed to reveal little more than was was garnered from her during her two previous testimonies.

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