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Occurred, quote, bears the principal responsibility for what happened. the response moved up the military chain of command for everyone who failed to see the protocols were totally mismatched to the dangers they were in, in beirut. the president was a republican, the congress was democrat. but that made that partisanship completely beside the point. before that barracks bombing in beirut, there had already been another terrible, deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in beirut. and after the marine b...

>> madam sect, this isey or no. do you think you complied with the arb in 1998, personally review the secretary at pentagon benning. >> thats not my understanding of the -- >> just -- the words are right there. >> i just answered, i personally reviewed security recommendations of chancery and other official facilities recommended because they were highly vulnerable, and threatened to be closed, and we closed some. some we were able to re-open, which is kind of part of the process. with respect t...

Congressman. >> madam secretary, they didnt get through, it didnt help them. were those responded to? is that your testimony today? >> many were responded to. there were affirmative responses to a number of requests for additional security -- >> and you laid it on chris stevens, didnt you? you said earlier, he knows where to pull the levers. so arent you implying that its his responsibility to figure out how hes supposed to be secure? because chris stevens knows how to pull the levers? is that y...

>> madame secretary, they didnt get through. it didnt help them. were those responded to? is that your testimony today? >> many were responded to. there were affirmative responses to a number of requests for additional security. >> you said earlier he knows where to pull the levers. arent you implying that it is his responsibility to figure out how he is supposed to be secure because chris stevens knows how to pull the levers? >> ambassadors pass on security recommendations and requests. that is...

Request subsequent to the august 16 cable, our personnel in libya had not submitted any additional security requests to washington at the time of the september 11th attack. there was an ongoing dialogue between libya and washington. >> reclaiming my limited time. an emergency meeting was held and a cable sent out on august 16 by the ambassador himself warning what could happen and this cable went unnoticed by your office. that is the bottom line. >> the facts as we have them, congress plan and i...

>> im christine romans. a warning from the 9/11 commission. america is not properly prepared for another terrorist attack because nine of the commissions security recommendations made back in 2004, nine of them, have been ignored by the government. >> im carol costello. the stand-off is over. the president agreeing to reschedule his big jobs speech next week. backing down from john boehner on this "american morning." >> good morning. good morning, good morning. thursday, september 1. w...