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Be 10 feet, 12 feet, 3 security agents or 5, that was the province, as it should have been, of the professionals. >> heres another one from the 1998 arb quote. the secretary should take a personal and active role in carrying out the responsibility and ensuring the diplomatic personnel abroad. do you believe you complied with that requirement from the 1998 arb? >> yes, i do. i believe that i had established a process and i said earlier today state department and security professionals have to be ...

Boards work. >> in january 2014 senator feinstein said, quote, the incidents at the tmf and cia were likely preventible. do you agree with that statement from senator feinsteins report? >> i would like to think that anything of that magnitude and the loss of life could have, in some way, been preventable. i think what the arb recommended were steps to try to enhance our ability to prevent future attacks. >> lets go back. i have the right poster up. in 1998 heres what the arb said. the secretary ...

Seriously the significant security incidents in benghazi, he never decided that the risk outweighed the benefit and he never recommended closing the post in benghazi. he worked with his counterparts to try to manage that risk as best they could. in its report the benghazi accountability review board found, quote, the total elimination of risk is a nonstarter for u.s. diplomacy. given the need for the u.s. government to be present in places where stability and security are often most profoundly l...

How is that possible? >> well, congresswoman, one of the great attributes that chris stevens had was a good sense of humor. i see him smiling as hes typing this because it is clearly in response to the e-mail down below talking about pick up a few, quote, fire sale items from the brits. >> those fire side items, by the way, are barricades. >> thats right. >> they are additional request for security for the compound. thats what the fire sale was because we werent providing enough physical securit...

Staff, you were not happy about it. the part that you werent happy about wasnt that you were the focal point. its that it didnt include enough. you said this is your e-mail. what bothers me is that the policy office prepared the time line but it doesnt include much of what i did. another time you said the time line is totally inadequate, which bothers me about our recordkeeping. u i was in paris when the attack started. its not on the time line. what else is missing? go over as soon as possible....