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And some were not. but from my perspective, again, these were handled by the people that were assigned the task of evaluating them. and, you know, think its important to again reiterate, that although there were problems and deficiencies discovered by the accountability review board, the general approach to have security professionals handle security requests i think still stands. >> yes, maam. i wish you had listened to those security professionals. you described mr. stevens as having the best ...

After the end of the gadhafi regime. i was responsible for quite a bit, congressman. i was not responsible for specific security requests and decisions, that is not something i was responsible for. >> time has expired. chair would recognize mr. shift. >> thank you. now almost at the end of the second round of questions, and i find it necessary to amend something i said after the first round and that is, i dont understand the theory of this kaps i thought i did but after this round i honestly don...

>> madam secretary, you are telling me you had no authority to take anyones paycheck, to cause anyone to be fired? you were telling me you were legally prohibited from doing that, is that your position here this morning. >> it is my position in the absence of finding dereliction or breach of duty, there could not be immediate action taken but there was a process that was immediately instituted and which led to decisions being made. >> yes, maam. the decision was put these back at fullback pay an...

Ten years from now. what needs to be done so we can make sure that our four heroic dead did not lay down their lives in vain? >> the attacks in benghazi, the congress never fully funded the security requests that the administration sent to congress. following benghazi, that has improved, but there are still areas where i think e greater fund i funding and responsiveness would be helpful. it was unfortunate that e we didnt get all the resources that might have enabled us to do more before benghaz...

Say she was engaged, but i think one of the questions that has been out there for years now is whether or not she was sufficiently engaged in the security requests being made by individuals including ambassador stevens. i know that she has instituted when she was secretary of state recommendations from the accountability review board. but do you know why all those requests were rejected? do you as a sitting united states senator have a better idea of why chris stevens and others didnt get the se...

Follow outside of the e-mails, and what specifically are you looking for tomorrow from hillary clinton that we have not heard yet? >> there will be many lines of questions that i think that the secretary has not been asked about in previous congressional investigations. im particularly focused on the security incidents, and the posture of the state department with respect to the security requests. we have learned through e-mails and through documents that there were hundreds of mentions about se...

Security instances, hundreds of security requests and even as senator feinstein said, this was preventable incident. well spend a lot of time exploring decisions that were made ultimately resulted in the death of four americans. well have that conversation with secretary clinton, we will either validate or not what miss mills said in her testimony. martha: so one new chunk of information that is out there now, are the emails that ambassador stevens sent requesting more security for himself as he...

Senate investigators he had to choose between guarding tripoli airport you see here, lifeline to the outside world and sending security with ambassador stevens to benghazi on september 11thth. he chose to reinforce the airport. >> the system is not working well. weve seen that not on just one occasion but many occasions. im not aware it has been fixed as we sit here today. reporter: the same month the british ambassador was targeted there was an ied attack on the consulate in benghazi blasting a...

Admitted responsibility for what happened. however, what we need to find out is what was the environment within the state department? what were the security requests that were made? how were they decided in what involvement did she have in making those decisions? who did she put in charge? how much information did she receive? what did she know, what did she not know? her e-mails indicate a bit of this but we have further questions about what she actually knew, what she was involved in, what kin...

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 ...