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Old friend who sent you unsolicited emails which you passed on in some instances because you wanted to hear from people outside what you called the bubble. We will ignore for a second whether or not blumenthal is outside the bubble, but i do want to ask you about a couple of those other comments. Because what you left out was he was an old friend who knew absolutely nothing about libya, was critical of obama and others you worked with, loved to send you political and image advice, had business interests in libya which he not only aletteralette alerted you to and solicited your help for. And af...

Information so they can determine credibility? >> he wasn't, as you just said, the source of the information -- >> but you didn't know that, madam secretary, that's what you just said. >> no, no, mr. chairman, i said -- >> no, ma'am -- >> i said that he didn't have the sorurces to provide that information. i knew he was getting it from somewhere else -- >> did you ask where? >> he knew a lot of journalists. it could have been a variety of people. >> if you're going to determine credibility, don't you want to know the source? >> well, it wasn't credibility so much as trying to follow the thread...