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Why did you not acknowledge because of your interest in 2011 the importance of having those security officers there to do what was so important to you, which was the political reporting then in 2011, 10 and when an ambassador was there three, and he brought two of his own the night of the attack which would meet the requisite five, but there was really only three there at any given time. if you could address that, again, i'm running a little short on time. >> well, he did have five with him on september 11th, and -- >> well, he brought two, right? he brought two with him. there were three ther...

Testified emerging security challenges were addressed. why did you partner with the department of defense to conduct such a high priority review, and was it effective in addressing the shortfalls in benghazi and applying it for other locations? >> congressman -- congresswoman, thank you very much. and thanks for your service and particularly your knowledge about these issues arising from your own military service and the service on the committees here in the house. it's very challenging to get military assets into countries that don't want them there. and, in fact, that has been a constant iss...

From talking to your senior advisers that they knew -- and many of them are here today seated behind you -- they knew to send you important information, issues that were of importance to you. and i can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in libya in 2012. so let's first focus, though, on this pile and what was happening in libya in 2011. we had an ambassador to libya, ambassador cress, but you've told us -- and you told us in your opening -- you hand picked chris stevens to be your special representative in benghazi, and you sent him there. and by your own e-mai...

But all of that begs the question as to why we've spent the $4.7 million that we have spent on this. even in the chairman's opening remarks, it was primarily a defense of the committee's existence. not any new information, not here's what we in those 17 months and $4.7 million have figured out that is new and different. nothing. in fact be, we've heard nothing -- in fact, we've heard nothing. even today's hearing, not a single, solitary thing that hasn't already been discussed repeatedly. so we've learned absolutely nothing. yes, we've uncovered a trove of new information. in this age there, i...

We were combating the proliferation of weapons. that's one of the reasons why there was a cia presence in benghazi, because we were trying to figure out how to get those weapons out of the wrong hands and get them collected in a way and destroyed. and, in fact, we began reducing those heavy weapon stocks. we were, you know, working on providing transition assistance to the libyans. i met with the libyans, i telephoned with the libyans, i saw the libyans all during this period, and it was hard because a lot of them knew what they wanted, but they didn't know how to get from where they were to t...