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Is in response to a video. >> now here we are finally today, more than a week after the benghazi strike. now the director of the national counterterrorism center now says that this was, in fact, an orchestrated terrorist attack. watch this. >> let me begin by asking you whether you would say that ambassador stevens and the three other americans died as a result of a terrorist attack? >> certainly on that particular question i would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist tick atta...

I mean, i talk to lots of senior u.s. military and intelligence officials and over the past couple of years with regard to the situation in afghanistan and pakistan. and, ezra, not once have i heard any frustration, consternation from them that they have not been able to take out a target that they thought was a legitimate target in pakistan or in afghanistan using a drone. getting any sort of pushback from the administration. it just hasnt existed. theres no record to support that. >> and what ...

Our willingness to use force, you would not be enemies dare to launch strikes like the ones that were launched in benghazi. but it now appears, at least potentially, that benghazi strike was a reaction to the force that weve used in trying to prosecute the war on terrorism. so how does this work? how do you kind of evaluate that claim? >> well, okay, so let us assume that that connection holds up and, in fact, the militants that were responsible for the horrific attack in benghazi were somehow s...

U.s. military and intelligence officials and over the past couple of years with regard to the situation in afghanistan and pakistan. and, ezra, not once have i heard any frustration, consternation from them that they have not been able to take out a target that they thought was a legitimate target in pakistan or in afghanistan using a drone. getting any sort of pushback from the administration. it just hasnt existed. theres no record to support that. >> and what have been the kind of consequence...

U.s. military and intelligence officials and over the past couple of years with regard to the situation in afghanistan and pakistan. and, ezra, not once have i heard any frustration, consternation from them that they have not been able to take out a target that they thought was a legitimate target in pakistan or in afghanistan using a drone. getting any sort of pushback from the administration. it just hasnt existed. theres no record to support that. >> and what have been the kind of consequence...

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