Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is due to testify behind closed doors on Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though it is not clear how much new information will come to light.
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, has said she has little information to provide and has accused the Republican-led panel of trying to shift focus away from President Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, whose death in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges was ruled a suicide.
She and her husband, Democratic former president Bill Clinton, have both called for the full release of the Epstein files and say they are being targeted.
“Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,” the former US secretary of state told the BBC in an interview earlier this month.
The Clintons initially said they wanted to testify publicly and on camera, which was denied.
They agreed to a closed-door hearing with the House of Representatives Oversight Committee when lawmakers moved to hold them in contempt of Congress.
Hillary Clinton is due to deliver her deposition to the committee at 11am ET (1600 GMT) in Chappaqua, New York, near their main residence.
Bill Clinton is scheduled to testify at the same time on Friday.
