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Somebody that got an e-mail and they said they would pass it up the chain. and somebody made the decision not to send the fess team. which would have been, as secretary of state, i would think, since it was a state department-led mission that that would have been the first thing that you would have wanted to get out. but instead, if i understand correctly from the e-mail chain, your first request was to see how soon the fbi could get over there, that is a true statement? >> well, congressman, the fest went to east africa to help rebuild our embassy capacity. they have expertise in once our two...

And that's why the cooperation and coordination that i'd been -- >> ma'am, of all the information we've got, mr. glenn daugherty is the one that said we are going down to help our brothers. and he got permission from the chief of the station to go down there and he took three other grs agents and then he got the two d.o.d. guys that wanted to go, volunteered to go, and they took an interpreter. they chartered the plane. and they went down there. it was not a state department deal. and in fact, if you want to know the truth, the only option that the state department had was the fess team as you...

>> it's an inner agency effort. >> okay. it was deployed in 1998 in kenyaing correct, after the embassy bombing there. >> right. >> of the towers. and tanzania, correctly. >> that's correct. >> they were there, ready to go on short notice, said they could have been ready in four hours to leave. this is the group of people that would go into a situation, as you describe, embassy had been overruns, attacked, kidnapping or whatever, to basically give guidance to any of the other forces or help that was coming in, correct? i know that your staff -- we've got a number of e-mails from your staff -- ...