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Of questioning recently has been basically implying that you don't care. there's no other way to interpret what we just heard, is to say you didn't make this phone call. what month, what day, what time? did you really care? did you visit them three times or just two? the line of questioning is implying that you don't care. there are two things that are troubling about that. first of all, you do or you wouldn't be doing this, or you wouldn't be representing the people that you do and doing the jobs that you did. second of all, whether or not you care has nothing to do with learning what happene...

The americans? and we were also still unsure of where our ambassador was, which made all of this in incredibly difficult for everybody in the state department. we didn't know where he was. we didn't know whether he was alive. it was shortly after that in the evening that we found out he was not. >> your chief of staff also explained to the committee that you were concerned not only for the safety of your teams in benghazi but your teams in tripoli and elsewhere. she said this about you, quote, she was very concerned and also very determined that whatever needed to be done was done, and she was...

And his colleagues were behind that and we were very appreciative. they, as you know, didn't get there in time because the attack on the compound was very swift. it was over in less than an hour, but they did help eventually to evacuate and it was just an additional tragedy that mr. doherty lost his life in attempting to stave off the attack on the cia annex. with regard to the fest recommendation, everything you read was no longer applicable to our compound in benghazi unlike the fest team responding in nairobi where we were going to have an on going embassy presence, the fest team was very m...

Implement in the state department even before the arb completed its work? >> well, although the arb had not completed its own investigation, clearly in the aftermath of benghazi we were doing our own evaluation of what had happened, what we knew about the circumstances and what we needed to do to try to get ahead of any other potential problems. one of the decisions that i made and discussed with general dempsey and secretary panetta was how we could get more assistance from the department of defense, and in particular, we sent out teams to the high threat posts that we had to get evaluations ...

Thought it was important to speak with our team in tripoli directly so they knew we were trying as best we could from so far away to help them and to help their colleagues. we also had pushed to have an additional team of security officers fly from tripoli and really the embassy in tripoli just took that on. they, in fact, probably came up with the idea and put it together and got the plane and sent more help on the way to benghazi. but it was a very personal conversation between me and those who were in our embassy. this is a place that i had spent a lot of time and paid a lot of attention to...