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You lose your job. so there is incentive not to talk. what will happen? i was in the white house during watergate. these things have a progression. there will be congressional committee hearings. there will be immunity given. people who will be called to testify will be midlevel people. they will all have to hire their own attorneys on their own dime. so they will come out and say the truth and implicate --. gregg: there is paper trail for everything. >> you bet there is. gregg: maybe wasn't that way during watergate. >> there were tapes during watergate, white house nixon tapes. gregg: one wo...

The story of benghazi, if accurately reported, would undercut the narrative bin laden's dead, and they manipulated the evidence to help them. >> you and your colleagues reported this week in the month before the attack, ambassador chris stevens twice said no to military offers of more security in benghazi. the offers came from the head of the u.s. africa command. "army general carter ham phoned stevens and asked if the embassy needed a special security team from the u.s. military. stevens told ham it did not, the officials said. weeks later ham, again, offered additional military assets and st...

Die down. waiting for it to be far enough away that they can breathe. that's why they are not getting rid of these employees, right? >> it is hard to get rid of them. they don't want to get rid of them, at least not now. the culture at stake is very very peculiar. largely dysfunctional. greg, i have dealt with it when i was in uniform i dealt with it over and over again. they are disdainful of the military. go back to what happened in benghazi didn't have to happen. because general carter ham head of african command had offered in late spring to leave more troops already on the ground in place...

Senior u.s. defense official. here is what we have been able to piece together on our own. the national command authority began moving assets shortly after 3:47 p.m. eastern when the first calm from the embassy to the state department was made. but none of those military assets were given permission to enter libyan air space. panetta said none of those military assets would have been in a position to help. they would not have been there in time. general carter ham was visiting washington and in the pentagon on 9/11 and went to the ops center and did all that was within his power to authorize. ...

Other operators at the annex asked the cia base chief for permission to go help at the consulate they were told by the base chief to quote, stand down. the base chief was in radio contact with the station chief in tripoli. u.s. officials say the base chief was trying to arrange libyan help. at approximately 10:30 p.m. woods and his team asked for permission to help and were again told to quote, stand down. at that point they disobeyed orders and wenten foot anyway, they were armed, climbing walls all the way to the consulate about a half mile away on foot and they helped rescue the survivors a...