Dated December 15th News Today

Repeat again, syd was not my advisor, official or unofficial. he was not involved in any of the meetings, conversations, other efforts to obtain information in order to act on it. on occasion i did forward what he sent me to make sure it was in the mix. if it was useful, it could be put to use. i believe in response to the e-mail you pointed out originally from ambassador stephens, he said it rang true and was worth looking into. he was not my advisor. he was not an official of the united states...

Number of diplomatic security personnel. youre talking about physical barriers, physical additions to the compound. there were quite a few of those that were undertaken. >> how is it that mr. stevens did not know in december whether or not the compound was going to remain open? >> well, are you -- >> or do you think that was 0 joke? >> i think if it about not an example of his sense of humor, as part of the ongoing discussion about benghazis future, which he went to lengths to describe what he t...

Secretary clinton when ambassador chris stephens didnt have any e-mail exchanges with clinton and his request for security before the attack went unanswered by her state department that she says she never saw. >> that was shocking to find out today that chris stephens did not have hillary clintons personal e-mail. that was shocking based on the fact she knew him well and sheú was in a troubled time in libya. >> let me ask you this, so far from what youve heard, is there any smoking gun? >> i th...

Express new interest, hats off to him. >> theres two more sessions to come and he promised more information about the communications with sydney it was feisty before we went to break. i thought it was surprising that mrs. clinton said she didnt have a computer in her state department office. what did you make of that? >> its interesting. she had plenty of other personal devices. many of which have security questions with them. the idea that she conducted most of her business away from e-mail is ...

Im being reminded which is important. chris spent the vast majority of his time in tripoli, not in benghazi. fully time youre trying to figure out whats the best argument to make, especially if youre someone like chris stephens trying to put together mangds the best argument about why the united states should remain committed to libya and others as well, hes going to engage in conversations about that. >> with respect, no matter what city he was in in libya, having to stop and provide public mes...

Also on june 7th of 2012, your deputy chief of staff is e-ma e-mailing ambassador stephens asking him to look at an e-mail. he writes, chris checking in with you on this report. any reactions? thats on exactly the same day that the our ambassador papers were accepted. its the day after an ied attack on our compound and chris stephens is being asked to read and react to an e-mail by sydney bloomingthal from your deputy chief of staff. this is what hes writing on the 7th. this is after hes turned ...

Appreciate you giving this proposal more consideration even if the conclusion is not favorable for us. ive got this contrast in my mind. ambassador is newly in place. its day after an attack on our facility. your deputy chief of staff is sending him an e-mail from sydney asking him to take time to read and react to it. then the best of my recollection thats forwarded to you. help us understand how sydney bloomingthal had that kind of access to you but the ambassador did not. >> i think your ques...

Hands full but wed like your advice about public messaging on the violence in libya over the past ten days. shes asking him for help with public messaging, jake sullivan, which is the other half of the question that i dont think we got to. i understand chris stephens was a rule followers. ive got fno qualms. my question is not why chris stephens didnt contact you but why did jake sullivan send chris stephens a sydney bloomingthal e-mail to read and react to on a day after the facility was attack...

In on whether or not the compound should stay open but id like to direct your attention to an e-mail that is at tab 4, dated december 15th december 15th from chris stevens, and i might add for the record, we do not, still to this day, have all of chris stevens e-mails. we received 1300 more this week, we received most of them last week. we dont have the universe yet of ambassador stevens e-mails, but he e-mailed to a reporting of, officer: interesting, has security improved in benghazi in recent...

We wanted to maintain a presence in benghazi in some form. we reopened our embassy in tripoli. thats why this e-mail is so informative. >> thank you. ill get to that in a moment. i assume your chief of staff was intimately involved in these discussions with you and with your top staff. shes one of your staff as you were referring to them, is that right? >> she covered a broad range of issues. im sure she was involved in some of the discusses. she had many other responsibilities. i cant say all o...