--- title: Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee description: Huma Abedin worked with Clinton at the State Department. canonical: https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-16T15:31:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:52:01.077Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee og:description: Huma Abedin worked with Clinton at the State Department og:url: https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0c9d4e4ef6449c3/6988689ecf40a803e2c403c0/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Huma Abedin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee twitter:description: Huma Abedin worked with Clinton at the State Department twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0c9d4e4ef6449c3/6988689ecf40a803e2c403c0/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 16, 2015 3:31 PM UTC  Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before a closed-door hearing of the House Benghazi Committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Oct. 16, 2015. Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before a closed-door hearing of the House Benghazi Committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Oct. 16, 2015.Jacquelyn Martin—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 16, 2015 3:31 PM UTC Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin appeared on Capitol Hill on Friday to testify before the House Select Benghazi Committee investigating the 2012 attack that killed four Americans. Abedin, who worked with Clinton at the State Department and is now vice chairwoman of her presidential campaign, is meeting with investigators behind closed doors. Clinton and her allies said the investigation is politically motivated after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy linked Clinton’s dropping poll numbers to the committee’s work. “It is a partisan vehicle, as admitted by the House Republican majority leader, Mr. McCarthy, to drive down my poll numbers,” Clinton said… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/clinton-aide-huma-abedin-appears-benghazi-committee-n445926?cid=par-time%5F20151016) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee","datePublished":"2015-10-16T15:31:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:52:01.077Z","description":"Huma Abedin worked with Clinton at the State Department","url":"https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/","keywords":["Congress","Hillary Clinton","Benghazi","State Department"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0c9d4e4ef6449c3/6988689ecf40a803e2c403c0/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0c9d4e4ef6449c3/6988689ecf40a803e2c403c0/huma-abedin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Huma Abedin","caption":"Huma Abedin","creditText":"Jacquelyn Martin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4076524/benghazi-committee-huma-abedin/","name":"Hillary Clinton's Top Aide Appears Before Benghazi Committee"}}]}] ```