{"id":19384,"date":"2026-02-26T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-hillary-clinton-agree-on-deposition-terms\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:16:45","slug":"house-oversight-hillary-clinton-agree-on-deposition-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-hillary-clinton-agree-on-deposition-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"House Oversight, Hillary Clinton agree on deposition terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s testimony before members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will focus on the federal government\u2019s handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as potential ethics violations by elected officials, according to a person granted anonymity to share details of the plans for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/25\/house-oversight-congress-epstein-accountability-results-00799731\" target=\"_blank\">closed-door deposition<\/a> in Chappaqua, New York.<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary of State will testify today, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will be deposed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the terms for Hillary Clinton\u2019s agreement to comply with a congressional subpoena and participate in the panel\u2019s Epstein investigation, she will agree to engage in questions about Epstein and Maxwell\u2019s efforts to exploit their connections to powerful figures \u2014 such as the Clintons \u2014 to protect themselves from accountability for their alleged sex trafficking crimes, the person said.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight panel has also agreed to discuss the government\u2019s mishandling of the Epstein case, which began in Florida long after Bill Clinton left office.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the list of agreed-upon issues does not include unrelated topics that have long been a fixation among Republicans, such as Hillary Clinton\u2019s handling of the 2012 Benghazi attack while she was secretary of State or her use of a private email server for official communications. She was dogged by both issues as she ran for president in 2016 against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Hillary Clinton has maintained she has no memory of meeting Epstein, while Bill Clinton has admitted to using Epstein\u2019s plane on several occasions but has maintained he never visited his island.<\/p>\n<p>Both have said they had no knowledge of his crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s testimony before members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will focus on the federal government\u2019s handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as potential ethics violations by elected officials, according to a person granted anonymity to share details of the plans for the closed-door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}