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Our efforts. but we absolutely -- ill speak for myself -- i absolutely did not forget about libya after gadhafi fell. we worked closely with the interim government and we offered a wide range of technical assistance, we were very much involved in helping them provide their first parliamentary elections. that was quite an accomplishment. a lot of other countries that were post-conflict did not have anything like the positive elections libya did. in july of 2012, the transitional government handed...

And i will speak for myself. i absolutely did not forget about libya after gadhafi fell. we worked closely with the interim government and we offered a wide range of technical assistance. we were very much involved in helping them provide their first parliamentary elections. that was quite an accomplishment. a lot of other countries that were post-conflict did not have anything like the positive elections libya did. in july of 2012 the transitional government handed over power to a new general n...

Of 2011 and that months later we come to find out that 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 that we were evaluating what that presence should 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 in the first e...

Briefings from the intelligence community. i had a very experienced group of senior diplomats who knew quite a bit about libya, deputy secretary bill burns had been our nations top diplomat who actually had negotiated with gadhafi prior to the entering in by the united states to support our european allies and arab partners, i sent a team to meet with representatives of gadhafi to see if there was some way that he would back down and back off of his increasingly hysterical threats against his ow...

Furthermore, there was not even on the morning of september 11th, while chris stevens and sean smith were at the compound, chris had spoken with intelligence experts. there was no credible, actionable threat known to our intelligence community -- >> yes, maam -- >> -- against our compound. >> reclaiming my time. you said that ambassador chris was pulled out of tripoli because of threats on his life? >> there were threats from people associated with gadhafi after the publication of cables he had ...

Intense discussion about whether to launch the navy s.e.a.l.s against the compound in which we thought might house osama bin laden. eventually the president makes the decision. i did what i 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 kmass massacres. there was another obstacle, the arabs. jake sullivan sent you an e-mail and he said this, i think you should call. it wil...

Today, i have not yet found the document that was prepared at your request for post gadhafi planning. did you have such a document prepared prior to the time that mr. gadhafi was removed? >> we mad a number of documents. we had a long list of areas that we were working on, and the process for following up on those areas. dont know if it was one document or a dozen documents but we had lot of work ongoing, both at the state department and at usaid. >> did you have a team work on that or if it was...

Youre 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 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. >> i want to direct your attention and maybe direct the groups attention to something that hasnt really been discussed. theres been this explicit critic...

Furthermore, there was not even on the morning of september 11th, while chris stevens and sean smith were at the compound, chris had spoken with intelligence experts, there was no credible actionable threat known to our intelligence community against our compound. >> reclaiming my time, you said that the ambassador was pulled out of tripoli because of threats on his life. >> there were threats from people associated with gadhafi after the publication of cables he had written that were made publi...

Have no recollection of or no knowledge of -- >> please turn to tab 31. its right here. >> i trust you have read it. but i also tell you that we had a presence in benghazi. we had members of the administration and congress in benghazi. of course i knew we had a presence in benz. i cant speak to what someone either heard or misheard. i think whats important, and i understand the underlying point of your question is, what were we doing about libya. >> yes and i heard -- >> after gadhafi, and thats...