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WASHINGTON (AP) — Another former top aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton has been testifying today to the House panel investigating the attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. And the senior Democrat on the panel says Jake Sullivan has answered every question that was put to him.
Sullivan is a former policy director and deputy chief of staff under Clinton at the State Department. He's now a top policy aide on Clinton's presidential campaign.
The panel is looking into the attacks in September, 2012, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
Meanwhile, a Democrat on the panel -- Adam Schiff of California -- has written in the New York Times that the committee has become "little more than a partisan tool to influence the presidential race." He called that "a dangerous precedent that will haunt Congress for decades."
A spokesman for the Republican-led panel, Jamal Ware, responded with an unusual and scathing attack on Schiff. In an email to reporters, Ware said Schiff hadn't attended enough of the panel's meetings to offer that criticism.
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APPHOTO DCCO104: House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., walks to a hearing room to hear testimony from Jake Sullivan, former Hillary Clinton aide during her tenure as Secretary of State, before a House panel on the Benghazi investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. A day after questioning a former top aide to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton behind closed doors, the House committee investigating the deadly Benghazi attacks is taking testimony from another member of Clinton's inner circle in closed session. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (4 Sep 2015)
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