Congresswoman Lauren Boebert recently addressed the uproar she caused by sharing a photograph of Hillary Clinton taken during a confidential congressional deposition on Thursday.

Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, was meeting privately with members of the House Oversight Committee. The session focused on her connections to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

There had been extensive negotiations between the Clinton team and the committee regarding the logistics of the deposition, eventually agreeing on a private setting to ensure confidentiality.

Despite these arrangements, Boebert, a 39-year-old Republican representative from Colorado, took a picture inside the session, seemingly breaching both the agreement and House rules.

Boebert then passed the image to conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who widely disseminated it across his social media platforms.

The incident led to a temporary suspension of the deposition as Clinton’s team voiced their frustration over the leak. It was soon confirmed that Boebert was responsible for sending the image to Johnson.

When pressed by the the Daily Mail about whether she had comment about the leaked photo, Boebert texted back a dubious response.

‘I don’t recall,’ she responded without sending further context. 

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stirred controversy by posting a picture of Hillary Clinton’s private congressional deposition on Thursday

The picture Boebert took of Hillary Clinton from within the deposition that was later published by conservative pundit Benny Johnson

The answer seems curious given the controversy the picture stirred, though it may be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Clintons. 

The response is an obvious echo of a classic phrase used by witnesses under congressional scrutiny — most famously by Clinton herself during previous Benghazi and email server hearings. 

Clinton repeatedly answered investigators questions during her 2015 testimony on Benghazi with ‘I don’t recall.’ 

When Daily Mail pressed her for additional details, the Colorado lawmaker sent on a statement she had posted on X. 

‘Benny did nothing wrong,’ the post said. ‘Proceeding with deposition.’ 

‘No U.S. Ambassadors were harmed in the taking of today’s photo,’ she said in another post, referencing at the Benghazi attack, in which an US Ambassador and two CIA operatives were killed. 

Clinton’s lawyers asked that the proceedings be halted after the photograph began circulating on social media.

It is strictly prohibited for lawmakers or witnesses to take pictures inside a closed-door congressional testimony.

A Clinton spokesman told the Daily Mail: ‘It’s against chamber rules that were read at the top of the meeting. So the hearing has been paused briefly while they figure out where the photo came from and why, possibly, members of Congress are violating House rules.’ 

The former secretary of state repeatedly used the phrase ‘I don’t recall’ when asked by congressional investigators about the 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya 

Boebert at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday

The former secretary of state is being deposed at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center near the Clintons’ home in Westchester County, New York, while Bill Clinton will testify on Friday.

The closed-door session is being filmed, though any footage will be reviewed by Hillary’s lawyers before release. The deposition resumed within an hour.

Hillary later asked James Comer, the top Republican overseeing the deposition, if the press could be allowed in the hearing after Boebert’s shocking leak. Comer reportedly replied, ‘No.’

Clinton has said that she has ‘no information on Epstein’s criminal activities and never recalls meetings.’

Boebert was pictured outside the deposition with what appears to be her grandson. 

She is a mother of four and has one grandson.