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>> exactly, what happened before the attack. his view was what terrorist threats or improving, the arab spring will take care of everything, that could be a motivating factor. it turned out to be a dangerous and deadly place. whether you want to call it a political cover-up perhaps we will find out a little bit of that today as well. >> there is a military question here as well over the course of 10 hours, the pentagon has officially said that there was not time to scramble military assets to af...

Reporter: the president talked about the acts of terror the days after benghazi. including why u.s. forces werent sent in in a way that could have perhaps prevented the second attack. and statements from administration officials that seemed to blame the attack not on terrorists, but anti-islam films that were angering muslims all over the world. the best assessment that we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, meditated attack. that would happen initially is that it was a spontan...

202011 until july 26th2012. as the regional security officer or rso for the embassy in tripoli i served as the principal security advisors to u.s. ambassadors eugene kretz and chris stevens on security and law enforcement matters. i want to thank the committee again for opportunity to appear and provide further testimony and support of your inquiry into the tragic events of september 11th, 2012. i would also like to thank the committee in your continued efforts in investigating all the details a...

Before the attack that is as much a part of criticism from september the 11th itself, i think these witnesses, given their positions, the deputy cheat and the alter ego in effe stevens, the counterterrorism bureau, those who have a sense of a worldwide terrorist threat, and eric nordstrom, the regional security officer who has already testified of his continued frustration and enhanced security who may well give us a sense of the retaliation, he has already experienced as a whistleblower. i thin...

Facility to provide reinforcement to repeal the attack. with that knowledge i called the operations center at the state department approximately 10:00 p.m. to report the attack and, what we were doing to respond to it. the next thing i did was to calling senior officials in the government of libya that i knew at the time. i dialed first the presidents chief of staff and reported the attack and asked for immediate assistance from the government of libya to assist our folks in because because. i f...

Recount the events or decisions. these witnesses deserve to be heard. they deserve to be heard on the benghazi attacks, the flaws in the accountability review boards, methodologies, processes and conclusions. before i introduce these witnesses that explains some of our efforts to earn more about what happened in benghazi, can we have those doors close, please. i want to take a moment to reflect on and recognize the brave americans who lost their lives in that attack. i also want to note that the...

Time difference, the rso, john martin ran into my villa, yelling, greg, greg, the consulate is under attack. and i stood up and reached for my phone because i had an inkling or thought that perhaps the ambassador had tried to call me and relay the same message and you found two missed calls on the phone. one from the ambassadors phone. one from a phone number i didnt recognize. and i punched the phone number i didnt recognize and i got the ambassador an the other end and he said, greg, were unde...

... back to the hearing in o benghazi, congressman with important questions for ben hicks about the aftermath of attack and what the administration said to the world. who is beth jones? >> beth jones is the sector middle eastern affairs. >> i want to read an excerpt from an email she sent. by the way, more chairman, for our colleagues that like to trumpet by partisanship, this would be a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate it. some of these emails have not

In turmoil. requests that the state department denied for more security. in the night of the attack, september 11, 2012. two separate attacks, the separate on the main compound. ambassador chris stevens and sean smith were killed. the second attack, more than six hours later on the compounds mean annex building. a mile or so away. that is were security personnel glen doherty and tyrone woods, both former navy s.e.a.l.s were killed. >> nothing will ever shake the resolve of this great nation or e...

Attack. so unambiguous right from the get-go. second, when they learned that ambassador stevens or his body is in a hospital, that it was controlled by the terrorist group ansar al-sharia, a stunning piece of information. i dont recall having known that before. and then third now we hear exactly about the team from tripoli that they wanted to send to benghazi to secure the airport to get the remaining cia and thats what the annex references are by the way i think, the cia personnel and state dep...