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Illinois. the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from alabama, ms. roby. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> my colleagues have focused on your relationship with the ambassador, chris stevens, and why you sent him into benghazi in 2011 as part of your broader libya initiative. but it's not so clear from everything that we've reviewed that you had a vision in benghazi going forward into 2012 and beyond. it appears that there was confusion and uncertainty within your own department about libya. and, quite frankly, secretary clinton, it appears that you were a large cause of that uncertainty. a...

Reassess, but it could have been ten days, it could have been sixty days depending upon what he found and what he reported back to us. >> and possibly what was determined about the danger of benghazi. who were those officials, secretary -- >> well, there were a number of officials -- >> that were advising you on the security specifically. >> well, with respect to the security, this was a particular concern of the assistant secretary for the bureau in which chris worked. >> i'm sorry, what was that person's name? >> assistant secretary jeff feldman. >> thank you. >> and it was also a concern of...

We have lost nonamericans with some of these attacks on facilities. we've lost our locally-employed staff. they never want to see any successful attack. so they have to be right 100% of the time. the terrorists only have to be right once. and, you know, that's why this is really at the core of what i tried to do before even i got the accountability review board, going back to the qddr, to come up with a better way of trying to make those assessments. >> madam secretary, if i may, just a few final points. the bottom line is benghazi on 9/11/2012 was not the only dangerous place in the world for...

Counterpart, secretary carter at the defense department, are continuing that, because i think it was very useful. certainly, it was useful for our security professionals and our diplomats to be partnered in that way with the defense department. you know, historically the only presence at some of our facilities has been marines. and as you know well, marines were there not for the purpose of personnel protection, they were there to destroy classified material and equipment. and so part of the challenge that we have faced in some of these hot spot, dangerous areas is how we get more of a presenc...

It's a fair and important question. the facility in benghazi was a temporary facility. there had been no decision made as to whether or not it would be permanent. it was not even a consulate. you know, our embassy was in tripoli. obviously, much of the work that we were doing was going flu the 'em bass -- through the embassy. there was a very vigorous discussion on the part of people who were responsible for making a recommendation about benghazi as to what form of consulate, what four of facility -- form of facility it should be. chris stevens believed it should be a formal consulate, but tha...