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Also on june 7th of 2012, your deputy chief of staff is e-ma e-mailing ambassador stephens asking him to look at an e-mail. he writes, chris checking in with you on this report. any reactions? that's on exactly the same day that the our ambassador papers were accepted. it's the day after an ied attack on our compound and chris stephens is being asked to read and react to an e-mail by sydney bloomingthal from your deputy chief of staff. this is what he's writing on the 7th. this is after he's turned down on a request for more security. this is our ambassador.

Appreciate you giving this proposal more consideration even if the conclusion is not favorable for us. i've got this contrast in my mind. ambassador is newly in place. it's day after an attack on our facility. your deputy chief of staff is sending him an e-mail from sydney asking him to take time to read and react to it. then the best of my recollection that's forwarded to you. help us understand how sydney bloomingthal had that kind of access to you but the ambassador did not. >> i think your question does help to clarify matters.

Hands full but we'd like your advice about public messaging on the violence in libya over the past ten days. she's asking him for help with public messaging, jake sullivan, which is the other half of the question that i don't think we got to. i understand chris stephens was a rule followers. i've got fno qualms. my question is not why chris stephens didn't contact you but why did jake sullivan send chris stephens a sydney bloomingthal e-mail to read and react to on a day after the facility was attacked. instead of e-mail traffic back and forth about security it's read and react to a bloomingth...

In on whether or not the compound should stay open but i'd like to direct your attention to an e-mail that is at tab 4, dated december 15th december 15th from chris stevens, and i might add for the record, we do not, still to this day, have all of chris stevens' e-mails. we received 1300 more this week, we received most of them last week. we don't have the universe yet of ambassador stevens' e-mails, but he e-mailed to a reporting of, officer: interesting, has security improved in benghazi in recent works? also curious what you guys decided to do regarding future of the compound.9uyñ he was i...

We wanted to maintain a presence in benghazi in some form. we reopened our embassy in tripoli. that's why this e-mail is so informative. >> thank you. i'll get to that in a moment. i assume your chief of staff was intimately involved in these discussions with you and with your top staff. she's one of your staff as you were referring to them, is that right? >> she covered a broad range of issues. i'm sure she was involved in some of the discusses. she had many other responsibilities. i can't say all of them. >> i'd like to refer you to an update on tripoli operations provided to cheryl mills on