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Information and internet access. the presidents top spokesman says it was not an intelligence operation. >> when you have a program like that in a nonpermissive environment, ie a place like cuba, youre discreet about how you implement it so that you protect the practitioners, but that does not make it covert. >> we are going to take another look tonight at the testimony of a key obama administration insider about the benghazi terror attacks. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge ta...

The committee pushed him to explain why the al qaeda reference was dropped. >> how does mentioning al qaeda disclose classified sources? >> what i was told, chairman, is that the only way we knew that was from classified sources. >> im just not following that logic. again, i came out next day and said -- had the hallmarks of an al qaeda attack. i dont think i was disclosing classified sources in doing it. >> reporter: in the process of defending himself, morrell contradicted administration state...

Because he thought it was unprofessional to embarrass hillary clintons state department which knew about the warnings and did not act. ultimately leading to the deaths of four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. republicans pushed morrell to explain the contradictions. >> you take out everything thats even related to -- to warnings and a bunch of other stuff, too, and direct oor petraeus is concerned because he wanted more information about warnings in there, so i dont -- that doesnt ...