Clinton angrily denies Benghazi cover-up
2013-01-23 18:45
Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday
angrily dismissed Republican charges that the US administration had sought to
cover-up events surrounding the attack on a US mission in Benghazi.
She was testifying about the deadly 11 September assault
on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris
Stevens and three other Americans.
"I just want to say that people have accused
ambassador [Susan] Rice and the administration of misleading Americans. I can
say, trying to be in the middle of this and understanding what was going on,
nothing could be further from the truth," Clinton told a Senate during the
hearing.
"What difference does it make," she added
heatedly, thumping her fist on the table as a senator repeatedly asked her
about why the administration had falsely initially blamed the attack on
protests outside the mission.
