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General hamm who was the head of the u.s. command in africa at this time, which had military control over u.s. forces in that region, and he testified back in the summer before congress and that testimony was released this week. he testified that within minutes of the attack, quote, to me it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just something sporadic. again, that's directly contradicting the narrative that came out of the white house in the days right after the attack, the narrative i heard and she was sitting right here from susan rice, th...

General hamm who was the head of the u.s. command in africa at this time, which had military control over u.s. forces in that region, and he testified back in the summer before congress and that testimony was released this week. he testified that within minutes of the attack, quote, to me it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just something sporadic. again, that's directly contradicting the narrative that came out of the white house in the days right after the attack, the narrative i heard and she was sitting right here from susan rice, th...

Fighting all night, tired, exhausted. >> reporter: and a special forces team. >> go bring our people home. that's what he wanted to do. colonel gibson, and his three personnel, getting in the cars, he stopped. and he called them off and told me that he's not been authorized to go. >> how did the personnel react to being told to stand down. >> i will quote you lieutenant colonel gibson. he said this is the first time in my career that a diplomat uk has more balls than someone in the military. >> reporter: he later tells congress he was not ordered to stand down, but stay in tripoli, due to thre...

Number of policy issues with libya. but i do know for a fact having talked to many senior government officials that our national security team was engaged in this trying to figure out and what the response is a sense of urgency about doing something about it. africon was not denied any asset they wanted. could this he get support into the annex in time to do something about it. their judgment looking through the soda straw of a drone where you don't get to see an area picture where they knew it was a residential area where they could not tell the attackers from the militia their judgment was n...

That the fire fights routinely in afghanistan we get into with enemy forces in residential areas many times we don't provide over head air sport for that was we are concerned with killing innocents. we take casualties under those circumstances. unfortunately we have these people killed. the fact of the matter is here africom is in charge of africa and libya comes under their command. the challenge is africom has no informed speeches hardly any. it's not like european command you just sign forces. that's an issue. secondly, they were able to get up very quickly in libya about an hour plus over ...