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Were bombed. just like benghazi, additional security requests were made before the attacks and were denied. with me now is edith bartley whose father and brother were both killed in the 1998 embassy attack.th edith, thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> thank you fo for having me. >> our condolences to you for the loss of your brother and your father. i understand that your father was counsel general at the embassy, and your brother was in college at the time and was an intern serving at the embassy. >>g correct. >> in the 14 years since this has happened, edith, you have fought...

Great bi-partisan support, but 14 years is far too long. it's been extremely frustrating to see that after the august 7th, 1998 embassy bombings, our public saw clearly the recommendations and findings that came out of the accountability review board that wabis tasked with looking into e circumstances surrounding the al-qaeda attack of our ebb embas in east africa. itme was clearly documented in both thete watered down report s well as the classified version. >> wait a minute. edith. i don't mean to interrupt you, but you say the watered down report. what do you mean by that? >>w well, there a...

Our congress and those embassy bombings were a collective failure of several congresses and administrations to appropriate the necessary funding to address embassy security nationwide or worldwide, and what we have failed to do even now is to have an accountability report, to have discussions, and we go on as business as usual as opposed to really sitting down and really strategizing long term what can we do to address embassy security and the personnel and families that are impacted afterwards. >> all right. here we are. same situation. 14 years later. edith bartley, thank you so much for bei...

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