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Track down leads, evidence, informants who are giving us information as well. >> reporter: susan candiotti, a huge amount of work going on from the cell phone records, to cameras, old-fashioned police work knocking on doors in revere, massachusetts. forensic teams will be closely analyzing the evidence left behind at the boston marathon finish line. they're hoping to find the bomb makers' signature from what remains of the explosives. they're saying it looks like an ied attack that you might see in iran or iraq. the navy is helping. cnn's barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more on th...

June 6. the u.s. temporary mission facility in benghazi was targeted by an ied attack. blew a hole in the perimeter of the wall. june 11th, an attack carrieded out in benghazi on the ambassador to libya. followed by small-arms fire. finally on june 18th, the tunisian consulate in benghazi was stormed. even with all of that, and attacks not known publicly we did nothing, claiming initially not to have specific intelligence of an imminent attack. we also heard this phrase, lack of actionable intelligence. but this report goes on to say the absence of specific intelligence about an imminent attac...

Threat outposts around the world. essentially, and seemingly, with the switch of a -- the flick of a switch. and further, if it's just a funding issue, how could with all of the attacks and threats that the smc had been dealing with throughout all of 2012, including an ied attack in june, how could all of those threats not add up to a response of, we need additional security? we're not asking for paper clips here. we are asking for security. >> well, these kind of situations, you never have -- you never have all of the threat information that you'd like to have so i think, you know, there was ...

Or she was misleading. but the person i brame blame the most is president. >> sean: you said within 20 minutes of the press conference, you sent a response. you said, don't think, mr. president, for one minute that i don't ultimately blame you. i think you failed as commander in chief before, during and aafter the attack. i want you to give some details. there are so many unintrd questions here. >> okay, number 1, i wrote the president wreak -- weeks ago, mr. president, were you informed in the april and june attack on benghazi? in june there was an ied attack that blew a hole in the wall that...

Leading up to the attack on the consulate in benghazi on 9/11. there were a series of incidents between june and september of this year, one specifically was an ied attack on the u.s. consulate itself. this caused major damage, but there was no significant security response and this is seen by the u.s. intelligence community as a testing or probing incident before the 9/11 at act itself. secondly how quickly did the u.s. intelligence community conclude what happened in benghazi was in an act of terrorism linked to al qaeda and a second group ansar al-sharia? how does that time frame match up w...