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Ambassador stevens we dont know the answer. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him . In may . Yes or no. Yes, i believe i did. When was that . I dont recall, and i want to clarify for the record, this document is about all of libya, and not just benghazi. You know, congress woman, i appreciate, and i really do, the passion and the intensity of your feelings about this. We have diplomatic facilities in war zones. We have am bass stores dors that we send to places that have been bombed and attacked all the time. And youre their boss. Youre right, i am. Youre their leader, is th...

Posture that was inadequate for benghazi this is from the most recent one. I want to know if you agree with this. Inadequate for benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place. Do you agree with the statement from the current arb . I accepted the recommendations of the current arb. My question is if you agree with it. I dont think thats a relevant question, congressman. I think the question is, i accepted their recommendations, and obviously their recommendations were based on their very thorough investigation and analysis. So, clearly i endorsed the entire boards work...

So theres were trying to have more preexisting arrangements like that, and that goes to your question. If there are assets in the region, how do we plan for contingencies so that they can be immediately triggered and try to respond. I obviously spoke to the white house, i spoke to general petraeus, i spoke to lots of other people that evening trying to get whatever help we could get. We did get a surveillance plane above the location, but it took some time to get there. It had to be diverted it was an unarmed drone. Correct . Yes. It was unarmed uav. So we asked for everything we could get and...

Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But in august of that same year, the United States government had said that this very man was, quote, a ...

Ambassador stevens after we dont know the answer. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in this may . Yes or no, please. Yes, i believe i did. And when was that . I dont recall. And i want to clarify for the record that this document is about all of libya, not just benghazi. I dont want anybody 77 are about benghazi. Congresswoman, look. I appreciate it and i really do the passion and the intense interof your feelings about this. We have diplomatic facilities in war zones. We have ambassadors that we send to places that have been bombed and attacked all the time. And youre t...