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Officers? >> oh, absolutely. i dont know if you didnt see it, but absolutely. >> yeah, we have some of it up on the screen. theres tremendous e tremendous disagreement about that. unless there was lethal threat to the officers. but, ultimately, that isnt your call, is it? and its not the athletes call. thats a call that has to go through the criminal justice system. i guess what im trying to get at here, from your statements, and the reason why theyve up set some people, is that your statements ...

Risen tremendously. at the current anticipated funding rate for fy-2013 the department estimates it will be able to construct just three new facilities despite the fact that there are a couple of dozen posts that now have been designated high-risk, high threat posts that need replacing right now. but the lessons of benghazi are not only about inadequately resourcing our security operations. it is also about the flow of information between the department and our foreign facilities. within the dep...

Be clear, in october 2011, then again in march of 2012 i believe that was here with the prime minister and neither one of these meetings was there a specific conversation between you and them with regards to concerns that we had that -- not just the deteriorating security situation but the inability of them as a host country to meet their obligations to provide security? >> of course. >> there was a conversation? >> absolutely. i mean this was a constant conversation, senator. and what i found w...

You know, i understand, aoeufr been on the other side of the table, i understand trying to figure out what was going on, and why we were told this. that and the other. i can only assure you that as the information came to light, and as people thought it was reliable we shared it, but that took some time. >> thank you. the remaining second left, you mentioned that many of the recommendations have now been put in place, there are protocols in place to make sure that if security is not adequate tha...

Security and im just wondering if you might mention one reform that would be helpful, so that you would have known of the needs there of security that went undone? >> well, obviously i have thought about this almost constantly since that date, senator, because, you know, i do feel responsibility. i feel responsible for the nearly 70,000 people who work for the state department. i take it very seriously but the specific security requests pertaining to gauze dpauz -- benghazi, were handled by the ...

This constrained our mission and led to husbanding of resources to such a degree that restricting the use of resources even for security has become a conditioned response. this is to say that the decisions about security resources being made more on costs than on need and value. and the answer cant be to cut more from other foreign affairs accounts to fund security. that approach fails to recognize that diplomacy and foreign aid are but down payments that yield dividend to us in terms of goodwil...

We can prevent some of this happening. i was curious about a number of things. first of all, were you ever asked to participate in any sort of internal or inner agency meeting before this attack with regard to the deteriorating security situation in libya? >> well, senator, you know, again, i appreciate your kind words, you know, and i reiterate my taking responsibility. and as i have already said, with specific security requests, they didnt come to me, i had no knowledge of them. with regard to...

The capitol that protect us, which were very grateful for and we pay for. it does cost money. to me i was not disappointed to hear the co-chair say, quote, congress must do its part to meet this challenge and provide necessary resources to the state department to address security risks and meet mission imperatives. frankly i think its a no-brainer. the fact that we would even have a problem with it, to me, doesnt make any sense. i hope we can work together to get the resources that we need for s...

To provide more capabilities and capacities at higher risk posts? before you answer that, could you maybe address the issue in mali right now. when you look at mali, you see a government that is weak, they dont have the best securities & exchange commission. are we working on that post? >> well, senator, thank you. youve raised a lot of very important issues. i will try to be as quick as i can in responding to them. let me start with the budget because this is a bipartisan issue. since 2007 the ...