[okie01]

I think she resigned in part because she got tired of being kicked around and in part because she realized that she was going to be blamed for the whole Benghazi thing, as if she were a rogue SOS who was busy undermining his sainted highness Obama.

During the previous summer, Hillary announced that she would resign the SOS, effective the end of Obama's first term.

[livius]

That’s true, I’d forgotten about that. So she had nothing to lose by defending Obama, although she probably thought (at that time) that she was still going to get support for her candidacy.