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Track down leads, evidence, informants who are giving us information as well. >> reporter: susan candiotti, a huge amount of work going on from the cell phone records, to cameras, old-fashioned police work knocking on doors in revere, massachusetts. forensic teams will be closely analyzing the evidence left behind at the boston marathon finish line. theyre hoping to find the bomb makers signature from what remains of the explosives. theyre saying it looks like an ied attack that you might see ...

June 6. the u.s. temporary mission facility in benghazi was targeted by an ied attack. blew a hole in the perimeter of the wall. june 11th, an attack carrieded out in benghazi on the ambassador to libya. followed by small-arms fire. finally on june 18th, the tunisian consulate in benghazi was stormed. even with all of that, and attacks not known publicly we did nothing, claiming initially not to have specific intelligence of an imminent attack. we also heard this phrase, lack of actionable intel...

Threat outposts around the world. essentially, and seemingly, with the switch of a -- the flick of a switch. and further, if its just a funding issue, how could with all of the attacks and threats that the smc had been dealing with throughout all of 2012, including an ied attack in june, how could all of those threats not add up to a response of, we need additional security? were not asking for paper clips here. we are asking for security. >> well, these kind of situations, you never have -- you...

Or she was misleading. but the person i brame blame the most is president. >> sean: you said within 20 minutes of the press conference, you sent a response. you said, dont think, mr. president, for one minute that i dont ultimately blame you. i think you failed as commander in chief before, during and aafter the attack. i want you to give some details. there are so many unintrd questions here. >> okay, number 1, i wrote the president wreak -- weeks ago, mr. president, were you informed in the ap...

Leading up to the attack on the consulate in benghazi on 9/11. there were a series of incidents between june and september of this year, one specifically was an ied attack on the u.s. consulate itself. this caused major damage, but there was no significant security response and this is seen by the u.s. intelligence community as a testing or probing incident before the 9/11 at act itself. secondly how quickly did the u.s. intelligence community conclude what happened in benghazi was in an act of ...

Making. martha: boy. so republican congressman mike rogers says he believes the new intelligence disclosures that have been coming out in some reports in the past couple days are part of a quote, orchestrated defense of the obama administration. we want to talk to him about that. he is the chairman of the house intelligence committee and he jones me now. good to have you with us today. >> good morning, martha. good to see you. martha: one of those reports came out of "the wall street journal." i...

Hearing is about to get underway. martha: boy, this is a tangled web. joining us now chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington. catherine, very important hearing this morning. what are we expecting to learn? >> thank you. we will hear from four witnesses who were the state department or militarys point of contact for security at the constitute in benghazi. investigators obtaining these documents that showed 230 security related incidents in libya from june 11 until t...

Tunisia have been developing in libya, but we cannot say it al qaedaback but it has the hallmarks of an al qaeda-style event. >>chris: given there have been i.e.d. attack, there have been five terror attacks on the ground against western interests in benghazi and i understand hindsight is 20/20 but were we as prepared as we should given the history of violence in the region, and it was the 1th anniversary of 9/11, and the ambassador was at the not very fortified installation in benghazi, should ...

Tunisia have been developing, in libya have been developing. we cant say for certain it was an al-qaeda event, it just has all of the hallmarks, chris, of an al-qaeda style event. >> chris: given and you mentioned the fact there had been an ied attack at this consultate. there have as i mentioned to ambassador rice been five terror attacks on the ground against western interests in benghazi. i understand that hindsight is 20/20 but were we he as prepared as we should have been given the fact tha...

Ambassador stevens and three others on this september 11th. and molly henneberg is here to tell bus that. interesting, molly. tell us more. >> there was an ied attack, an improvised explosive device attack in in june and rocked propelled grenades in august. but, as far as the consulate attack goes, the the white house says it was in response to an online video that was put on youtube back in june, that some muslims found offensive and here is what president obama had to say about it in his weekl...