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Defiant Clinton takes on lawmakers on Libya attack

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, back to camera, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking Republican Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., left, listens as the committee's presiding Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, during the committee's hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration's handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.

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