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Discuss. so they are focusing on lets get everybody talking about what was the intel just after what led to this discussion about the video. thats ridiculous. set that aside and talk about what a serious -- it was from the very beginning. they didnt have a contingency plan when things went south. once a balloon goes up and you have got a problem like this attack, not as simple as saying send in the air force. have you got to have plans in place and you have got to have a counter assault team ava...

All of this is it would not have fit the narrative of the administration which is minimal footprint that were letting you run your country. >> al qaeda is on the run? >> al qaeda is on the run. we are out. we have taken out our military presence there. wouldnt have fit that anywherive. >> politics will come into these decisions a lot of times. and prance, perhaps the administration or the department of defense thought its just too risky to try to put some sort of forces on the ground to save the...

Of attack. september 11th warning about growing problems with the security situation there. why might these pleas have been ignored? >> well, because, again, it didnt fit the narrative and ever since the very beginning of our involvement in libya, and, you know, can you argue well, what were we doing in libya? supposedly it was an effort to save civilians, you know from, qaddafi. okay. never mind the fact that we have been silent in syria. but, it was very hands off. you know, it was air support...

Liberating these people and everything is going well. thats why i think you saw this repeated denial of any additional security forces because of the optic. because of the policy. so any time you have that level of concern, you are seeing repeated intelligence indicating that things are not right. you had members of al qaeda functioning militia all around you, yet, no one was paying attention. it was because of the politics. thats the only explanation that this point fits. >> we, i guess i didnt...

Chris stevens is? you know, this is what happened. on september 11th we were attacked and just got those thoughts. en but the original intent of the question was to it ask those individuals if they were aware of the spark that incited the violence in libya. to see if they would, maybe toe the party line and recite that this was a spontaneous uprising due to a youtube video. and i was simply speechless when i asked that question and they hadnt heard of the event at all. so, i didnt really spend a...

Respond rapidly. if you have a predator. one other thing i hear the film on this is damning. some people have told me whats on that. it is really really bad. >> we now have some documents that have been released. therefore, we talk about the response watching this drone. why wasnt there a response -- well, well prior to the drone being in the air? and we have these documents. throw them up on the screen for you. this is a memo from ambassador stevens titled libyas fragile security rivalries, pow...

Security and warned of a growing threat from al qaeda and libya before the attack on our consulate that left stevens and three other americans dead. now the cia claiming it knew within 24 hours of the attack that it was an act of terrorism. why did it take the obama administration weeks to admit? joining us to break this all down, former cia covert operations officer president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm mike baker. good to see you as always in boston this morning. ...

Jersey on, tough guy, he knows all about "american idol." >> i celebrated the entire catalog. i do wonder if he can really pin his debate on bin laden. i mean, you know, i know thats a funny clip, that was brilliant but you wonder, you cant really sit there and. >> it is fascinating that the foreign policy. that the foreign policy debate has shifted from being completely on president obama, that seemed like that was going to be a layup for him. easy foreign policy. now we have got libya. now the...

Insight into knowing whats going on. but you are getting screaming at langley saying give us some information. give us some insight. so your sources on the ground, you know, if they are available, you are getting all that intel. its going back to washington. this is my point, its going to the white house. the white house knew essentially as soon as as the information was landing in lapgly what the agency had. so for them to say they didnt know what was going on, to the degree that anyone knew wh...

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