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Planning and training exercises, this may have actually helped the state and dod to identify existing vulnerabilities in the temporary mission facility in benghazi. moreover, regular communications between africom -- which is the dod command -- and the special mission benghazi could have facilitated the prepositioning of military assets in a region where there were very real questions over the host country's ability to protect our diplomatic personnel. secretary clinton, within the weeks of the terror it attacks in benghazi -- terrorist attacks in benghazi happening, following that, i understa...

Don't have enough security, they are on lockdown, end quote. and i say that this is very troubling to me because it raises several issues that i'd like to ask you about. i'm struck by the first part, quote, the secretary asked last week if we still have a presence in benghazi. now, you pointed out to mrs. brooks in her last line of questioning based upon the e-mail stacks here that you engaged in a lot of conversations and briefings, so i'm assuming that this conversation with this member of your staff took place in one of those briefings, but then she sent this e-mail asking about the this. s...

To speak. and from your own records that we have, we saw a drop in your interest in libya and benghazi in 2012. not only did the record show your drop in interest in benghazi, it was even noticed by your own staff. i want to point this out to -- say this because i want to point you to an e-mail in early february 2012 between two staffers at your libya desk that says you didn't know whether we still even had a presence in benghazi. let's not use my words, let's use theirs. this can be found at tab 31. the e-mail say, and it's dated february 9, 2012, one writes to the other about an encounter th...

In their country. and what i concluded is that we needed to have these assessments, because even if we couldn't post our own military in the country, we needed to have a faster reaction. now, i certainly agree 100% with the findings of the armed services committee here in the house and other investigations. our military did everything they could. they turned over every rock. they tried to deploy as best they could to try to get to benghazi. it was beyond the geographic range. they didn't have assets nearby because we don't have a lot of installations and military personnel that are in that imm...

Not really feel that they could welcome a peacekeeping mission. they couldn't welcome foreign troops to their, to their soil. that made it really difficult, and it didn't have to be american troops, it could have been troops from anywhere in the world under a u.n. mandate that might have helped them begin to secure their country. >> secretary clinton, if i may, i hear what you're saying, but this e-mail says something very, very -- >> well, you know, i can't speak to that. i can just tell you what i was doing. >> sure. but this is your staff. and i -- >> what -- >> if they had this conversatio...