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Incidents at your facility, state department facility in benghazi, libya. it shows increase in security being non-existence. i assume answer is the same we have increasing security incidents but no corresponding increase in the amount of security? >> congressman, i have to respectfully disagree. many security requests were fulfilled. we would be happy to get you that information for the record. so i cant really tell what it is youre putting on that poster but i know that a number of security req...

This began with the chairmans statement. the chairman said, at the outset of hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people dont know the truth. that this is the first investigation weve ever had. the reality is we have had eight investigations. weve gone through this endlessly, and, if you just l...

And asked for help, i directed our folks to ensure that we were doing everything possible. and that is of course what they were doing that night. is that correct? >> that is, and also the defense department was doing everything it could possibly do. we had a plane bringing additional security from tripoli to benghazi. there was an enormous amount of activity. everyone. it was all hands on deck. everyone jumped in to try to figure out what they could do. the attack on the compound was very fast. ...

That we were trying to make sense of. the situation was very fluid. it was fast-moving. there was also a claim of responsibility by ansar al sharia and when i talked to the egyptian prime minister, i said that this was a claim of responsibility by ansar al sharia, by a group that was affiliated or at least wanted to be affiliated with al qaeda. sometime after that, the next day, early the next morning after that, on the 12th or 13th, they retracted their claim of responsibility. i think if you l...

Further attacks and in fact, during the course of that week, we had many attacks that were all about the video. we had people breaching the walls of our embassies in tunis and khartoum, people thankfully not americans dying at protests but thats what was going on, congressman. >> i appreciate most of those attacks were after the attack on the facility in benghazi. you mentioned cairo. interesting what else miss newland said that day. she said if pressed, by the press, if theres a connection betw...

Let me ask you briefly, i want to expand on just what i think is really the core theory here. i want to give you a chance to respond to it. as a prosecutor, we are taught that every case should have a core theory and all the evidence and the witnesses go back to that core theory, and i have wrestled as i listened to my colleagues today, as i have over the 17 months, what is the core theory of their case? what are they trying to convey? and i have to say, its confusing. i think the core theory is...

Said. win is that, you seemingly were disengaged the evening of september 11th, 2012, for example, mike huckabee accused you as mr. cummings said of ignoring the warning calls from dying americans in benghazi and senator rand paul stated that benghazi was a three a.m. phone call that you never picked up and senator lindsey graham tweeted where the hell were you on the night of benghazi attack? those appear to be based on the testimony of witnesses and documentation that we have obtained in this ...

He had been posted with officials in the state department. they had gone through difficult challenging dangerous assignments together. he was in constant contact with people. yes, he and the people working for him asked for more security. some of those requests were approved. others were not. were obviously looking to learn what more we could do. because it was not only about benghazi, it was also about the epba embassy in tripoli. i think its fair to say that, you know, chris asked for what he ...

Documents, that says nothing about the substance of what they have learned that theres a problem. and reality is that after 17 months, we have nothing new to tell the families. we have nothing new to tell the american people. we have not discovered nothing that alters the core conclusions of the eight investigations that went on before. now, my colleagues have been saying quite often this week, with amazing regularity, this is fact-centric investigation. and i agree. so i would like to talk abou...

Introductory meeting. they were here, 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 on the ground with members ...