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Little -- we need to understand the process within the bureaucracy before you judge it. one last thing i want to say, a very important point, there's an enter agency process. another key piece where you are not e-mailing directly the secretary, you are actually, as when i was ambassador, interacting with the national security council, and my colleagues at the pentagon to deal with policy issues. >> ambassador pickering, your investigation and report was the one that specified -- >> let me make one comment. thanks, mike, for your very kind remarks which i appreciate immensely. i worked for kiss...

>> based on input from the state department. >> here's what i have been saying -- >> do you deny that? no i'm answered this self times, and there was an enter agency process, which is always the case because a lot of agencies have a stake in a matter like this, the investigative agency, the cia, intelligence agencies, the state department, the national security staff, and everybody provided information and comment, and then on saturday morning the cia said we're going to take a crack at forecasting these points based on what we know. and the things you're talking about, again, don't go to the ...

Administration does regularly in both parties, and as i said at the top this is not a replacement for this briefing and that's why i'm take your questions. >> how too you go from a conversation happening between various administration officials, very area is officials, on september 14th, and in the e-mail and that e-mail exchange there's a discussion about a group -- al sharia, and the references to the group are removed from the conversation and don't make they're way into a talking point that is not a stylistic edit. that is major dramatic change -- >> i appreciate the question and the oppor...

That concern was expressed in other quarters, not just the state department. >> concern about giving members of congress something to use against the state department. >> well, again, this was a process where there was an effort underway, an enter agency process, to develop information that could be delivered by government officials, both congressional andded a administration officials, before the what we knew and not going beyond what we knew. so, the assertions that -- >> that's -- the language of the e-mail is clear me and response is clear. no matter who provided the talking points in the ...

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