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This security element left in august despite the personnel in libya, the state department officials and others in libya asking for better security. bill: well, woods will tell these investigators, the house committee, that he met with stevens all the time. >> right. bill: so what hes going to do now, he will lay out a story and situation and scenario and where stevens all likelihood expressed danger he felt to his own life, right? that makes sense. >> absolutely. i dont want to sound overly cyni...

And called it good. they had a significant security force out there which they then chose despite a deteriorating situation they then chose to pull out of there despite the requests from the people inside. this has got to be a serious problem for the white house. bill: well, if thats what he says it has to be defended by someone also within the administration, whether the white house or the state department. >> absolutely. but what youve got to do, you have to figure out where that path leads yo...

Complete and almost verbatim records in our cable traffic. i think the issue was the security risk posed to our officers. >> thank you. >> time expired. senator blunt. >> thank you. thank you, chairman. miss haspel, we havent really mentioned the broad support that you have had publicly from democrats, republicans, people who have run this agency in the past, people have associated with, frankly, people this committee has members on this committee have shown great respect and regard for have sho...

He was not a true believer. >> so we arranged for a meeting with him in the turkish bath in the hilton hotel. >> we started to talk to him. he wanted a better life. he wanted to do something that he could really believe in. and ideologically he was clear ly on our side. he did not like communism. he believed that the american system was superior. all of those things kind of came together. we realized we could make a deal with him. and we did. that was aleksandr ogorodnik, a foreign ministry offi...

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