bret: so you want to keep your team on the ground, the team that was in place. my team was only a small part. there was msd, state department msd. that stands for mobile security detachment team. a lot of those are ex-green beret, gs navy seals. there was three teams when i got on the ground there. august 5th, the state department decides not to keep the sst in libya. and the msd team is being reduced, as well. who opposed it? charlene lamb. she denied the requests or didn t fill in. why was that? you knew about all these other attacks? we had been training local libyans and arming them. let me interrupt. why do you think the request
you want to keep your team on the ground? the team that was in place already? my team was only a small part. that stands for mobile security detachment team. a lot of those are ex green p berets, navy seals. there was three msc teams when they got on the ground. august 5th, 2012, they decide not to keep the sst in libya. the msd team is being reduced as well. who opposed this? charlie lamb. she denied those requests or ignored them or just didn t fill in the cases. why is that? you knew about all of the other attacks that had been taking place. we had been training local libyans and arming them for almost a year. why do you think this request
bret: so you want to keep your team on the ground, the team that was in place. my team was only a small part. there was msd, state department msd. that stands for mobile security detachment team. a lot of those are ex-green beret, gs navy seals. there was three teams when i got on the ground there. august 5th, the state department decides not to keep the sst in libya. and the msd team is being reduced, as well. who opposed it? charlene lamb. she denied the requests or didn t fill in. why was that? you knew about all these other attacks? we had been training local libyans and arming them. let me interrupt. why do you think the request
bret: so you want to keep your team on the ground, the team that was in place. my team was only a small part. there was msd, state department msd. that stands for mobile security detachment team. a lot of those are ex-green beret, gs navy seals. there was three teams when i got on the ground there. august 5th, the state department decides not to keep the sst in libya. and the msd team is being reduced, as well. who opposed it? charlene lamb. she denied the requests or didn t fill in. why was that? you knew about all these other attacks? we had been training local libyans and arming them. let me interrupt. why do you think the request
we had been training local libyans and arming them for almost a year. let me interrupt. why do you think the request was denied? i don t know. i really don t know. in the case of the s.s.t., that was provided to them by d.o.d. the state department didn t have to pay money. i can t imagine why. i can t fill in the blank. that is part of what was trying to come out of a congressional investigation. were you flabbergasted like what can we do? we couldn t even keep what we had. i think what was motivating the state department was that if we had security that would have truly been appropriate, it would have been an admission that conditions on the ground in libya were not safe. and that would have violated the world view that this had been an administration success. bret: you left libya in august. less than a month before the attack. august 14. bret: how did you feel about the security situation when you left? i didn t like it.