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Communications. you would send diplomats and envoys into places and not hear from them for maybe months. this was, obviously, not of that kind, but it was not that different in degree from what we had done before, and it was a risky undertaking and one which chris volunteered for and was anxious to undertake. >> and it was so risky i'd like to pull be up another e-mail from the op center that was forwarded to you from ms. abedin on sunday, april 10th. so he had been there about five days. and it indicates that the situation had worsened to the point where stevens is considering departing from ...

Leaders, business leaders in benghazi. so he felt very comfortable. it was his decision. ambassadors do not have to seek permission from the state department to travel around the country that they are assigned to. he decided to go to benghazi. by taking two security officers with him and having three there, he had the requisite five that had been the subject of discussion between the embassy and the state department's security professionals. i'm not going to in any be -- in any way suggest that he or the embassy got everything they requested. we know that they didn't from the accountability re...

To say it's frustrating for us here on this panel asking these questions to hear you in your opening statement talk about the responsibility you took for all 70 plus thousand employees, yet i'll read you an e-mail that is a conversation between two of those employees, and it seems as though you're just brushing it off as not having any knowledge. >> i'm just saying i have no recollection of it, and it doesn't core respond with the facts of what we were doing on a regular basis. >> i've got a few seconds left, we can talk about the security. in 2011 during the revolution, then-envoy stevens had...

The least we could do would be to actually focus on the four brave americans who were killed, why they were killed and focus on benghazi. and we have not. i mean, mr. process couple's questions i found to be the most interesting. it was like he was running for president. he wanted to debate you on overall libya policy as to why we got in there in the first place. that's debatable, and i think you will argue that quite well. but that's not about the attack on benghazi. that's not about what we could have done to better protect them. so again, i've seen this committee is focused on you. and i'm,...

Appropriate for him to stay for a long time or a short time. that was very much going to depend upon chris' own assessment. we knew we were sending someone who understood the area, who understood the language, who understood a lot of the personalities because of the historical study that he used to love to do, and we were going to be guided by what he decided. >> i'd like to draw your attention to an e-mail, it's an e-mail found at tab one. it's an op center e-mail that was forwarded to you from huma abedin on sunday, march 27th, that says at the bottom of the e-mail, so the current game plan ...