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Did and the risks you took, the leadership you took. a couple of hours ago you told he im the diplomat here. im driving the policy. isnt it true you had been think about getting political credit for months on in this? >> no. >> well-thats that your answer, let me draw your -- mad dynamic. >> congressman, let me please, if i could -- were trying to make sure that what was written, because its not always accurate, in case you all havent noticed in your own careers -- what was written about a very ...

Pleased with the work that you did and the risks that you took, the leadership that you took -- you know, a couple of hours ago you toemd me, hey, im the diplomat here, im driving the policy. and isnt it true ta youd been thinking about getting political credit actually for months on this? >> no. >> well, if thats your attention -- >> but congressman, please, if i could. >> sure. >> we were trying to make sure that what was written because its not always accurate, in case you all havent noticed ...

Senior staff, you were not happy about it. and the part that you werent happy about wasnt that you were the focal point. is that it didnt include enough. so you said, this is your e-mail, what bothers me is that the policy office prepared the timeline but it doesnt include much of what i did. another time you said the timeline is totally inadequate. which bothers me about our record keeping. ill come back to that in a minute, madam secretary. i was in paris 3/19 when attack started. its not on t...

Hearings. >> if joe biden announced he was running, there would be a different set of eye balls. theres two serious inquiries that are worth asking the secretary about. number one is this issue of embassy security. there was the exact same recommendations essentially given in 1998. 1999 after the embassy attacks that took place in east africa. so none of them, four secretaries of state failed to do this. you could start with al bright through powell, rice and clinton on that front. and the secon...

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...

With the screaming that are purely along partisan lines makes you want to take a shower. >> i want to go back to the point of how was the libya policy formulated. because apparently the republican committee theory is going to be sidney blumenthal fed all this bad thinking into hillary clinton, hillary clinton then just fed all this bad think think into barack obama and ultimately sidney blumenthal who the obama administration did not want to employ ended up controlling president obama. now -- >>...

Many of whom are here today with you. so jake sullivan, one of your close advisers that you just told us about, put together the tick tock on libya memo. and that was a memo that was all about you. it put together 22 different accomplishments and you were the central figure in all 22 of those accomplishments. ive got to tell you, its really well put together. he uses language of action, initiative and leadership. hrc, thats you, obviously, announces, directs, appoints special enjoy, travels to g...

Your team. many of whom are here today with you. so jake sullivan, one of your closer advisers, put together the tick tok on libya memo and that was a memo that was all about you. it put together 22 different accomplishments and you were the central figure in all 22 of those accomplishments. ive got to tell you, its really well put together. he uses language of action and initiative and leadership. let me give you a couple of these. hrc, thats you, obviously, announces, directs, appoints special...

Cheryl mills, to call denis mcdonough, now the presidents chief of staff to put together a fullcourt press -- ill wait while you read the note. >> thank you. because i dont -- >> heres my question. >> im waiting for a question. >> go ahead. you finish reading and ill start talking. >> one thing i wanted -- >> well -- >> i dont have what youre reading -- >> here -- >> in font of me. >> tab 12. >> that has now been handed to me and its clear i wanted to make sure christ stevens, jeff feldman, dod,...

Benghazi on the night of the attacks. during the select committees first hearing, which was more than a year ago shs the chairman posed the following question. we know the risk of being in benghazi. tell us what our policy was in libya that overcame those risks. in other words, why were we there? the accountability review board already answered that question. benghazi was the largest city and historical power center. although the transitional national council declared that tripoli would continue...