Washington - Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to testify at a hearing on October 22 on the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, the House select committee investigating the attack announced on Wednesday.
“Members of the committee will question the former secretary about Libya, Benghazi and her email arrangement consistent with the scope and jurisdiction of the committee,” panel spokesman Jamal Ware said in a statement.
Clinton, the top Democrat candidate for the 2016 US presidential elections, is expected to be grilled by Republican lawmakers over her role in the Benghazi attack and the controversial use of a private server to handle her emails while in office.
For the past months, Clinton and House Republicans have been engaged in a tug of war over when and how many times should Clinton testify before the investigating committee.
The Clinton campaign camp already announced on Saturday that she would testify on October 22 before the US House select committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terror attack.
But the announcement was refuted later by the Republican-controlled panel which insisted no date had been set.
The House panel also accused the Clinton camp of attempting to exclude her controversial use of personal email server and account from her testimony.
Clinton was secretary of state at the time of the September 11, 2012, attacks by Islamic militants on the US consulate in Benghazi, which resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The controversy surrounding Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email account and a private server while she was the head of the State Department reignited interest last week after the inspector general for the intelligence community informed US lawmakers that certain content sent from Clinton’s private server contained classified information.
Based on the finding, Clinton’s Republican rivals renewed their calls for her to hand over her private email server.
Xinhua