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Benghazi, and that the day that he died, he had five security officers. a lot of security professionals who have reviewed this matter, even those who are critical, that the state department did not do enough have said that the kind of attack that took place would have been very difficult to repel. thats what we have to learn from, congresswoman. you know, there are many -- there are many lessons going back to beirut, going back to tehran and the takeover of our embassy and going all the way thro...

Thatted through afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, yemen, other places. they were the ones making the assessment. no one ever came to me and said, we should shut down our compound in benghazi. >> maam, im not saying shut it down. im saying protect it. im not saying, im not saying shut it down. im just saying protect it. >> right. >> when you say security professionals, im not trying to be disparaging of anybody, but i dont know who those folks were but -- >> they were risking their lives. >> my little...

He died, he had five security officers. a lot of security professionals who have reviewed this matter, even those who are critical that the state department did not do enough, have said that the kind of attack that took place would have been very difficult to repel. thats what we have to learn from, congresswoman. there are many lessons going back to beirut, going back to take r tehran the takeover of our embassy. we learn from lessons and we actually act and we do the best we can. theres a perf...

Inbox. so if you had people and processes in place for security, did you not also have people in place for medicine, gasoline, diesel, milk. >> i have said it before and i will say it again. ill say it as many times as is necessary to respond. chris stevens communicates regularly with the members of my staff. he did not raise security with the members of my staff. i communicated with him about certain issues. he did not raise security with me. he raised security with the security professionals. ...

>> well, there are a couple of important point it is to make about this, congressman. first, i made a number of decisions to close embassies and other official premises based on security. i closed the embassy in tripoli. i had to evacuate all of the americans out of libya. we had to lease ferries that came from malta. we closed embassies and other facilities when we had a strong consensus recommendation that it was necessary to do. so that is a statement of secretarial responsibility. now with r...

Counterpart, secretary carter at the defense department, are continuing that, because i think it was very useful. certainly, it was useful for our security professionals and our diplomats to be partnered in that way with the defense department. you know, historically the only presence at some of our facilities has been marines. and as you know well, marines were there not for the purpose of personnel protection, they were there to destroy classified material and equipment. and so part of the cha...

Processes in place for security, did you not also have people and processes in place for medicine, gasoline, diesel, milk? >> you know, mr. chairman, ive said it before. i will say it again. ill say it as many times as is necessary to respond. chris stevens communicated regularly with the members of my staff. he did not raise security with the members of my staff. i communicated with him about certain issues. he did not raise security with me. he raised security with the security professionals. ...

Arrangements. >> right. >> she was making the argument, look my job as secretary of state you dont want a secretary of state who takes a personal, direct day-to-day interest in planning security for every embassy, every consulate around the world. >> she was saying you dont want me involved. >> you want security professionals doing than pompeo, correct me if im wrong, he ended by saying leaders lead, that was his response, saying i would take that to mean, you should have been directly involved....

Order five, that was the province, as it should have been, of the professionals. >> heres another one from the 1998. arb. the secretary should take a personal and active role in carrying out the responsibilities and ensuring the security of u.s. diplomatic personnel abroad do you believe you complied with that? >> yes, iu&cyy i believe i established a process and i said earlier today, state department and our security professionals have to be 100% right and i think that what happen in benghazi w...

Thats what we tried to do. i find it deeply saddening because obviously everyone who knew him and everyone who worked with him including libyans as i said at the very beginning, would have given anything to prevent this from happening. our security professionals usually, in fact, more than 99% plus of the time get it right. >> madame secretary, if we would have given anything had you talked to him in july he would have told you that he had asked to keep the security in libya that he had. he was ...