WikiLeaks Publishes Info From CIA Director's Personal E-Mail
VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN Newsroom. I'm John Vause.</s>SESAY: And I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour: U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, will not run for president. He made the announcement Wednesday with his wife and President Barack Obama by his side. Biden says he ran out of time to start a realistic campaign as he grieved over the death of his son, Beau.</s>VAUSE: One person is dead in Jerusalem after an apparent attack on an Israeli soldier. Police say the suspect tried to grab the soldier's gun; that's when the soldier and a security guard opened fire, killing the suspect. Israeli police are not calling it a terrorist attack.</s>SESAY: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks about the Holocaust is sparking strong criticism in both Israel and the Palestinian territories. Netanyahu said killing Jews was not Hitler's idea, but rather it was the suggestion of the Muslim leader in Jerusalem.</s>VAUSE: Syrian President, Bashar Al Assad, met with his Russian counterpart, and chief backer, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on Tuesday. It's believed to be the first time Assad has left his country since the civil war began in 2011. A Kremlin spokesman said the pair talked about coordinating military action.</s>SESAY: The CIA condemns it as, "a crime with malicious intent." The news leak organization "Wikileaks" published information it says came from the personal email of CIA Director John Brennan.</s>VAUSE: The spy agency says it does not believe that classified documents were revealed, but the information published includes sensitive data about Brennan's security clearances. Wikileaks says they plan to release more documents on Thursday. Hillary Clinton will appear before a U.S. House Committee on Benghazi Thursday. It's expected to be a grueling hearing about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya on 2012 when Mrs. Clinton was Secretary Of State.</s>SESAY: Republicans call it a fact-finding effort. Democrats believe it's a political witch-hunt. Either way, Clinton has plenty of experience testifying on Capitol Hill, as our own Tom Foreman reports.</s>TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Since the killing of four Americans in Benghazi in 2012, in all the congressional grilling, Hillary Clinton has let her frustration show in a big way only once.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Was it because of a protest or was it because guys out for a walk one night who decide they'd would go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?</s>FOREMAN: Aside from that, her testimony has historically been marked by steady nerves, even amid withering attacks.</s>REP. JEFF DUNCAN (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: Madam Secretary, you let the Consulate become a death trap and that's national security malpractice.</s>FOREMAN: Malpractice, health, and insurance is what led her first to the witness chair.</s>JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In a starring role on Capitol Hill, for the second straight day, Hillary Rodham Clinton --</s>FOREMAN: In 1993, she was the first First Lady to ever face Congress over massive pending legislation, making the case for her husband's Health Care Reform plan.</s>CLINTON: The benefits package is a fair one, particularly because it emphasizes primary and preventative healthcare which is not --</s>FOREMAN: Her composure and command of the facts drew rave reviews, even if the legislation did not.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think in the very near future, the President will be known as your husband. Who's that fellow? That's Hillary's husband.</s>FOREMAN: Since then, she has been in Congressional hearings dozens of times, often fielding the questions, sometimes as a Senator asking them.</s>CLINTON: If 9/11 was a failure of imagination and Katrina was a failure of initiative, this process is a failure of judgment.</s>FOREMAN: In the Benghazi inquiry, even when sharply challenged, she has rarely been pushed off of her talking points.</s>CLINTON: With specific security requests, they didn't come to me. I had no knowledge of them.</s>FOREMAN: It all comes down to a simple fact: when Hillary Clinton walks into that room, she will have more experience with congressional hearings than most of the people there; and that can make even a hot seat, if not comfortable, at least cooler. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.</s>VAUSE: CNN will cover the hearing live on Thursday. Kickoff begins 10:00 a.m. in Washington; that is 3:00 p.m. in London.</s>SESAY: Well, many people the world over celebrated "Back to the Future" Day on Wednesday, but people in Chicago, oh, dear, they wound up the one movie prediction that struck out. We're going to take you to the Windy City live, next.