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State department bureaus. and the review board recommended 29 specific improvements. i pledged that by the time i left office everyone would be on the way to implementtation. and they were. more marines were slated for deployment to high-threat embassies. additional diplomatic security agents were being hired and trained. and secretary kerry has continued this work but there is more to do. and no administration can do it alone. congress has to be our partner as it has been after previous tragedi...

Control of your e-mails because they were on a private server and not the governments server. the other thing id like to say is miss duckworth, if you would read the testimony of the number of diplomatic security agents that served in benghazi, most of them were temporary duty, 45, 60-day people that served. if you will read that, i think youll find a lot of these things that the secretary said as far as enhancements was paid for by petty cash out of their own money and not really fulfilled or c...

Be ten feet, 12 feet, whether there would be 3 security agents or 5, that was the province of the professionals. >> madam secretary another one from the 1998 arb. first and foremost the secretary should take a personal and active role in taking care of the security of u.s. diplomatic personnel abroad. do you believe you complied with that requirement from a 1998 arb? >> yes, i do. i believe that i had established a process and i said earlier today a state department and security professionals ha...

We were discussing, and we had our other two deaths of tyrone woods and glenn dougherty at the cia annex -- >> reclaiming my time for just a minute. i do appreciate that but if you talk to the cia contractors that were at the annex and you ask them how they were armed and equipped, and then if you would or could talk to the diplomatic security agents that were at the facility, i think you will see that there was a big, big difference in the equipment that they had to protect themselves. but you ...

Because they were on a private server and not the governments server. the other thing i would like to say is to miss duckworth, if you would read the testimony of the number of diplomat security agents that served in benghazi, most of them were temporary duty. 45, 60 day people that served. if you will read that, i think you will find that a lot of these things that the secretary said as far as. >> the "on the record" political panel is back with the boston globe matt visor and "the washington p...

Congress, standing committees with very experienced members and staff have all looked into this and basically just rejected the conspiracy theories that are still floating out there in some circles. so i really dont know. i will do my best to answer their questions. but i dont really know what their objective is right now. >> i covered the benghazi situation, the benghazi tragedy when i was a white house correspondent. and theres something i just never really understood. and that is why did the ...

The house. i dont know if that i have very much to ad. its after all, the eighth investigation. other committees was congress, standing committees with very experienced members and staff have all looked into this and basically just rejected the conspiracy theories that are still floating out there in some circles. so i really dont know. i will do my best to answer their questions, but i dont really know what their objective is right now. >> i covered the benghazi situation straj tragedy when i w...

Ive already testified about benghazi. i testified to the best of my ability before the senate and the house. i dont know that i have very much to add. this is, after all, the eighth investigation. other committees of the congress, standing committees with very experienced members and staff have all looked into this and basically just rejected the conspiracy theories that are still floating out there in some circles. so i really dont know. ill do my best to answer their questions, but i dont real...

Gowdy has been focused on those allies in closed-door benghazi meetings. a source telling them there have been 53 interviews and depositions with witnesses called in for gowdys probe. gowdy has attended fewer than 10 of the 53. but the interviews, which were described by the huffington post as staff led, that gowdy has attended include cheryl mills, clintons chief of staff when she was secretary of state. jaiblg jake sullivan, clintons former deputy chief of staff and current adviser. sidney blu...

The former regional security officer in libya eric nordstrom recalled in testimony asking for 12 new security agents. and he was talking to a regional director who said he was asking for the sun, the moon and the stars. it got so bad, nordstrom said, that he was fighting members of the state department. it was like having the taliban on the inside of the building. >> well, the accountability review board that i commissioned went into this in great detail. and they made some recommendations. >> i...