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The attacks on cairo. people forget about this. the attacks on the cairo embassy were real. a dozen others were attacked at the same time. it was only after those attacks and the operating assumption of some people involved was the guys in benghazi saw what was happening, hey, now is our time. round up the boys. so it did kind of merge together a couple days after the fact. theyre still trying to sort it out. it doesnt seem to be, even if they got it wrong, you dont see any guilty intent. >> was...

>> youve been shaking your head here, joe. lets stick to this question of how it was portrayed. i watched susan rice on television and i thought she was great but i was looking at it from a total political voupoint view. i said thats a soldier perhaps audition for a big job of secretary of state and she just won it. i didnt know the details. i saw her putting the best light on a situation that was strong and really compelling. and we found out the situation later. >> a dozen protests in the regi...

Made to drop the reference to the terror group. the end result? this e-mail to rice. you are doing the sunday morning shows and need to be aware of the final postures these points took. the big changes run counter to what white house secretary jay carney told reporters last november. >> the white house and state department have made clear the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two, these two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facil...

Against our facility in cairo which were prompted by the video. >> reporter: what rice did not disclose is investigators suspected an al qaeda connected group was behind the attack. in an e-mail dated september 14th at 7:39 p.m., state department spokeswoman victoria nuland wrote why do we want the hill fingering ansar al sharia when we arent doing that ourselves? the point could be to abuse the state department for not paying attention to warnings. the references were removed. nuland chimed in ...

One, events before the benghazi facility came under attack. two, events occurring when the benghazi facility first came under attack. third, events occurring before the second attack in benghazi. and fourth, events after those two attacks. one of the charges congress will hear tomorrow concerns the third time period. between the attacks in benghazi. between those attacks. gregory hicks, a state department official, posted in tripoli said, he asked for four special forces personnel to be sent to ...

Issue. for the rest of the evening the presidents next briefed on it apparently the next morning. the president is -- you know, normally normally in a situation like this the situation room would get spun up. secure video link between it and the defense disement department and state department. the president would be briefed on periodic basis. instead they tell the president benghazi facility is under attack. and he basically says well, great, i will talk to you tomorrow. this, to me, is just ap...

Issue. for the rest of the evening the presidents next briefed on it apparently the next morning. the president is -- you know, normally normally in a situation like this the situation room would get spun up. secure video link between it and the defense disement department and state department. the president would be briefed on periodic basis. instead they tell the president benghazi facility is under attack. and he basically says well, great, i will talk to you tomorrow. this, to me, is just ap...

Within 45 minutes the communications director, the press secretary spokesman for the state department, victoria nuland weighed in saying this was wrong, we dont want this. later that night, ben rhodes, national security council press operative well settle the question what these talking points are on a white house meeting saturday morning, september 15th. and version one is the cia version. version two is the what apparently comes out as a result of that meeting and these conversations. it remov...

The judge told him to save that for another court. the suspect then went on to deny the charges against him. investigators say that suspect and another man, planned to below blow up the railroad bridge just as a train traveling between toronto and new york crossed. prosecutors say the men support -- have support from members of al qaeda group in iran. not the state itself. the iranian foreign minister spoke about the case on state tv. calling the alleged link between al qaeda and iran the most h...

Were plea paired for a wide range contingencies. i just remind you that the nctc in the six months prior to that attack identified some 281 threats to u.s. diplomats, diplomatic facilities, embassies, ambassadors, and cons lets worldwide. and obviously benghazi was one of those almost 300 areas of concern. but unfortunately there was no specific intelligence or indications of an imminent attack on that u.s. facility in benghazi. and, frankly, without an adequate warning there was not enough time...