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Consulate searching the safe room for ambassador stevens. all u.s. personnel except for the missing u.s. ambassador are pulled from the mission. a review of a secret diplomatic cable shows august 15 a month before the attack during an emergency meeting the state department consulate staff and cia leadership in benghazi agreed to work hand in glove as security on the ground deter yaitd. mission personnel couldr could co-locate to the annex. there was an agreement for formal weekly meetings to dis...

State department and the white house knew as this was going on that a terrorist group with links to al-qaeda had claimed responsibility, facebook and twitter yet they came out with that ridiculous video story? >> this is no surprise. we know that the security guards at the compound in benghazi were in cellphone contact with the state department in realtime. technology being what it is. they dont send old-fashioned and cables in times of great urgency. they send e-mails. apparently weve got sever...

>> fox news confirmed that a waiver was signed by the state department, consulate in benghazi did not need specific security environment for high-threat posting. the manage theyre signed off on the waiver is scheduled to testify tomorrow. >> that will be a hearing. >> it will be. >> bret: thank you. >> youre welcome. >> bret: radical egyptian cleric extradited from britain has pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in new york. abu hamsal al masri accused to conspire with men in seattle to set ...

Anti-american protests have spread to more than 20 countries throughout the middle east and north africa and indonesia and australia, supposedly sparked by the anti-muslim film or the trailer. today the protests spread to afghanistan where u.s. troops have already been suffering from insider attacks. what can or should the administration do? william cohen is former defense secretary during the clinton administration and is now chairman of the cohen group. bill, thanks for joining us. is this in ...

>> so in this case with this woman by the car, that was suspicious, seeing this person by a car hovering down? >> thats exactly right. if you look at the video for several minutes leading up to this particular incident, youll see the individual basically casing the parking lot and thats something our system had not seen before so its issue an alarm to the security personnel. >> gretchen: as this loop continues, theres a package left at a train station, the red box eventually goes around and that...

top of tf of the hour. a terror blot here at home. the feds say this frgroup of a anarchists are accused of wanting to blow up a bridge in ohio. the target here, a four lane bridge in cleveland. but get this, the fbi says it controlled the plot the entire time. under cover and the public was never ever in danger. so coming up, more on that alleged plot and how they planned to distract place. but first breaking news. im hearing now president obama has made a surprise visit to afghanista...

children off for a supervised visit. powell had lost custody of the boys, and he was a suspect in his wifes disappearance. he sent an e-mail saying only "im sorry, good-bye." a neighbor describes what he saw. >> i just knew that if there was anyone in there, they didnt survive. you could tell that instantly from what we saw. i cant imagine anyone killing their children. i just -- thats beyond anything i can imagine someone doing. the state department shut down the embassy in syria ho...

Aggression, to shape the security environment, and to decisively prevail in any conflict. from the beginning i set out to ensure that this strategy review would be inclusive. chairman dempsey spgs and i met frequently with the service chiefs, secretaries, combat tant commanders, senior enlisted advisors. we also discussed this strategy and its implications obviously with the president, his national security advisors, with members of congress, and with outside experts. there were four over archin...

Both of them provided those kinds of recommendations. this process has enabled us to assess risk, to set priority, and to make some very hard choices. let me be clear again. the department would need to make a strategic shift, regardless of the nations fiscal situation. we are at that point in history. thats the reality of the world we live in. fiscal crisis has forced us to face the strategic shift thats taking place now. as difficult as it may be to achieve the mandated defense savings, this h...

Provided these recommendations. this process enabled us to assess risks, set priorities and make some very hard choices. let me be clear again, the department would need to make a strategic shift regardless of the nations fiscal situation. we are at that point in history. that is the reality of world we live in. fiscal crisis has forced us to face this strategic shift that is taking place now. as difficult as it may be to achieve the mandated defense savings, this has given all of us in the depa...