Washington
(CNN) Hillary
Clinton avoided major damage to her presidential campaign during a nearly
11-hour congressional hearing Thursday dominated by Republican criticism of her
response to the Benghazi attacks.
Bitter
political undercurrents festered all day during a contentious showdown that
turned into a political endurance test. After a day-long grilling on the
details of the attack and how Clinton handled it, the former secretary of state
was forced to defend her use of a private email account while in office from a
flurry of late evening attacks by GOP lawmakers.
She also
came under testy cross-examination over the extent to which she has taken
responsibility for the deaths of the Americans in the September 11, 2012,
attacks and her contact with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, one of the
victims, after sending him to the North African country.
"I
came here because I said I would. And I've done everything I know to do, as
have the people with whom I worked, to try to answer your questions. I cannot
do any more than that," Clinton said towards the end of the grueling day
-- before later breaking into a coughing fit and taking a throat lozenge to
ease her failing voice.
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