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Information that this cable reveals. a number of explanations come to mind. to me it's the ide log call explanation that the war on -- ideological explanation that war on terror is over and al-qaeda is defeated. >> multiple sources on the ground tell fox news low level improvements made at the consulate compound, adding barbed wire. separately in column at the "washington times" retired admiral who once commanded pacific fleet criticized administration lack of action when the consulate came under attack writing "courage was lacking and the decisive and immediate action might have saved lives o...

Into the night on september 11th, the white house national security staff was receiving updates that the second wave of the attack had begun with mortar strikes on the annex what we now know to be the cia outpost a mile from the consulate compound. the status reads in part quote d.s. reports the chief of mission personnel in benghazi is under attack by mortar fire. there are reports of injuries to come staff. military experts tell fox the mortar fire is literally the smoking gun piece of evidence that shows the attack was preplanned. mortar team needs distance, elevation, weather conditions an...

Analysts still aren't sure exactly what led to that attack on the compound in benghazi, and if mitt romney tries to claim otherwise, he's going against our most senior intelligence people. >> well, governor romney seems to be making the point that it had nothing to do with the video, the anti-islamic video that came out of los angeles. did it have something to do with that according to best intel zm. >> chris, let me tell you what i heard from the intelligence officials and then you and your viewers can decide. their intelligence is that some of the people who attacked the compound on the nigh...

Working in tactical operation center immediately activated the imminent danger notification system. >> state department official lamb was working that night in washington. so she could follow the events in real-time. >> also alerted the quick reaction security team stationed nearby. libyan 17th brigade, embassy in tripoli and the diplomatic security command center in washington. >> back here in the main residence, the special agent reportedly comes here and gets ambassador stevens from his bedroom and brings him along with sean smith to this room in the safe haven. really aside from medicine a...

>> there was a lot of information. >> bret: we begin the story in the winter of 2011. a year before wood arrives in libya. colonel is still in power. the u.s. state department withdraws the personnel from the capital. sick weeks later, april 5, 2011, it sends stevens with a 12-man team by chartered boat to benghazi. now under rebel control. as special representative to the rebels. stevens set up shop in hotel. june 1, 2011, car bomb explodes in a parking lot in front of the hotel. in august, stevens settled on a compound on the west side of the city. >> it was from owner who had a