Hillary Clinton Tackles Benghazi Issue Head On

In a new memoir, Hillary Clinton is expected to offer her most detailed account yet of the deadly 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, which could become nettlesome should she run for president in two years' time.

The former secretary of state rebukes Republicans over the issue in her book, Hard Choices, part of which was leaked to a political website on Friday.

She says she will "not be part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans", according to Politico, which obtained the chapter, entitled Benghazi: Under Attack.

"Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country," she writes.

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Ms Clinton also says an anti-Islamic video that triggered protests in Egypt was "indeed a factor" in the Benghazi incident.

Conservatives accuse the Obama administration of misleading the public and Congress about the nature of the attack to avoid political backlash in the weeks before the presidential election.

The September 11 2012 assault on the US diplomatic compound killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Ms Clinton's memoir will be published on June 10.

A week later she will sit down for an interview with Fox News, which has extensively covered the Benghazi affair, it was announced on Thursday.

Hillary Clinton testified on Benghazi in January last year

Meanwhile, speculation has been swirling among Washington DC's political classes over a private lunch between President Barack Obama and Ms Clinton on Thursday.

The White House confirmed the two - rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination - had dined alone.

But aides on both sides refused to say what they talked about.

Anticipating Ms Clinton's forthcoming memoir, the Republican National Committee said in a statement on Friday: "The more Americans learn about hard choices like these, the less likely they will be to choose Clinton in any future election. A book isn't going to change that."

Earlier this month, the House Republican leadership controversially launched a select committee to investigate Benghazi.

Ms Clinton has already taken responsibility for the assault, calling it the darkest hour of her career.

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