Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But in august of that same year, the United States government had said that this very man was, quote, a young rebel leader who allegedly fought in iraq under the flag of al qaeda. Were you aware that our folks were either wittingly or unwittingly meeting with al qaeda on the ground in benghazi, libya, just hours before the attack . I know nothing about this, congressman. I think thats deeply disturbing. I think the fact that your team was meeting im sorry. Which team is this . We dont know exactly w
Because you wanted to hear from people outside what you called the bubble. We will ignore for second whether or not Sidney Blumenthal is outside the bubble but i wanted to ask you a couple things. Because he was an old fwloend knew nothing about libya, was critical of president obama and others that you work with, loved to send you political and image advice, had business interests in libya which he not only alerted you to but solicited your help for and you often forwarded his emails but usually on after you redacted out any identifier so nobody knew where the information was coming from. What does the word unsolicited mean to you . It means that i do not ask him to send me the information that he sent me and as i have previously stated some of it i found interesting, some of it i do not. Some of it i forwarded, some of it i do not. I do not know anything about any business interest. I thought that just as i said previously newspaper articles, journalists of which he is one, a former
Limited. So, once again, could you explain how the elimination of the original recall aspect would improve safety . Well, first of all, original recalls are not in the statute. Its just completely informal thing that the manufacturers about 25, 30 years ago came to the agency said we would like to do a regional recall and the agency said okay and then Standard Operating Procedure because its much cheaper for the manufacturers, only to recall a small number rather than nationwide. Vehicles arent stationary. Thats a silly thing. They go all over the country and the car is fixed because you bought it and lived in florida and moved to minnesota it doesnt make any sense. I think that the agency could prioritize. I think they have the discretion under the law to prioritize and say if youre doing the recall and its more likely to happen in a particular area because of the weather, then we would prefer you do it that way. Just briefly, unfortunately, i have a few second left but in your experi
Subtropical climate but the fact that the subtropical climate happens to be in the country that actually occupies the most territory in the arctic region is rather an almost as well. Never before has Olympic Games been held in the region in such close proximity to a conflict zone. Never before, although more about this conflict zone never before has Olympic Games been held na conflict, in such close proximity to conflict zone in which was, in fact the site effectively to civil wars in the country that is holding the games. One of which effectively russia lost in the mid 1990s with chechnya and one of which was one, the zone in the northern caucasus they are referring to where my esteemed colleagues will talk at greater length about the challenges you know, when mr. Putin went down to Guatemala City in 2007 it was a period of relative relative quiet since i would say in the area. Chechnya have been somewhat stabilized, and the frequency of violence in the other republics, the northern c
Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it and the isolation that followed.