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One who was the architect. another fact checking thing here, it wasnt only necessarily hillary clinton. certainly, she was one of the top leaders of the policy. but she also had then ambassador to the u.n. susan rice and samantha power whos now the u.n. ambassador but was in the white house at the time, very strongly advocating for military action. so the republicans are trying to paint this as hillary clintons policy. and they say she lost interest and ignored some of the warning signs. but cle...

Played, i am very grateful to have had that chance and im very convinced it was the right thing to do. >> you just recited the clinton doctrine to us and let me tell you what i think it is. i think its where an opportunity is seized to turn progress in libya into a political win for hillary rodham clinton. a precise moment when things look good, take a victory lap, like all the sunday shows before gadhafi was killed and then turn your attention to other things. i yield bang -- >> well, congressm...

>> can i direct your attention to the screen? your familiar with that clip. we came, we saw, he died. is that the clinton doctrine? >> no. that was an expression of relief that the military mission undertaken by nato and our other partners had achieved its end and, therefore, no more american, european or arab lives would be at stake in trying to prevent gadhafi from wreaking havoc on libyans or causing more problems to the region and beyond. >> i want to direct your attention and maybe direct t...

Navy s.e.a.l.s against the compound we thought in afghanistan about osama bin laden. eventually the president makes the decision. i supported doing what we could to support our european and arab partners in their effort on a humanitarian basis, a strategic basis to prevent gadhafi from launching and carrying out massachusetts kemass massacres. >> there was another obstacle, and that was the arabs themselves. jake sullivan said this. i think you should call. it will be a painful ten minutes, but ...

There was no american outpost. there was no american military presence. eventually other americans representing different agencies were able to get into benghazi and do the same work but they, of course, couldnt do that work overtly, which is why we wanted a diplomat who could be publicly meeting with people to try to get the best assessment. but it was always going to be a constant risk, and we knew that. >> so, let me go back to the risk in 2011 because there was a lot of communication. again,...

Overthrow gadhafi alongside samantha powers and susan rice. then she brought chris stevens into the mix to work during the revolution against gadhafi, how she was even involved with his security. then they showed how based upon a diminution in the number of e-mails that she lost interest in this case, that she was so focused on in 2011 so in 2012 she wasnt so interested to the point there were a couple of attacks on that facility out there and that she was aware of them, but its like they began ...

While gadhafi was still in power. i talked with those people in our embassy family as they were or the ferry going from tripoli back to malta. so we tried to engage with, listen to and support our teams when they were facing these very difficult circumstances. >> this committee has interviewed your staff that was with you that evening of the attacks, chief of staff cheryl mills and deputy chief of staff jake sullivan. they explained you personally participated in a teleconference with senior mem...

Were we in libya. why did the united states join with our nato and european allies, join with our arab partners, to protect the people of libya against the murderous planning of gadhafi. why did we take a role alongside our partners in doing so? there were a number of reasons for that. and i think it is important to remind the american people where we were at the time when the people of libya, like people across the region, rose up, demanding freedom and democracy, a chance to chart their own fu...

In 2009 about a month after someone shot a grenade through the front door. the security situation there is incredibly serious as well as it is in a whole lot of other places. and those are difficult decisions, but the effort here today seems to be that somehow you personally decided not to do your job in libya. you were apparently the advocate of the policy in libya. apparently passionate about it, but not passionate enough to care about the security situation. chris stevens was incredibly passi...

2011, including your trip in 2011, and months later we come to find out you didnt even know if we had a presence there. >> well, i cant comment on what has been reported. of course, i knew we had a presence in benghazi. i knew we were evaluating what that presence would be, how long it should continue, and i knew exactly what we were doing in libya. and i think its important, since you have some very legitimate questions about what we were doing. you know, the united states played a major role i...