Long-time Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin is set to testify Friday in front of the House panel investigating the Benghazi attacks.
Abedin, the vice chairwoman of Clinton’s presidential campaign and a former top aide at the State Department, will appear behind closed doors for a transcribed interview — a major difference from what Clinton herself is set to face next week in a public hearing scheduled for Thursday.
A committee aide said Abedin will be questioned about the events leading up to, during and after the September 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya — as well as “executive branch activities and efforts to comply with congressional inquiries into them.”
She won’t face questions about her controversial work for Teneo, a strategic consulting firm, or the Clinton Foundation while also serving as a “special government employee” for Clinton at the State Department.
The appearances come after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, credited the committee with dragging down Clinton’s poll numbers in her bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination — a line that fired up Democratic criticism of the panel.
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Benghazi committee chairman, has insisted the panel’s work isn’t driven by politics.