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>> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i'm pleased that you finally have the opportunity to be here. before i start my line of questioning, i just want to clarify with regards to the april/june 2012 incidents, i believe that the procedure that the state department had for these types of incidents was to actually hold what are called emergency action committee hearings on the ground immediately. and, in fact, there were at least five on records for june alone on the ground in both tripoli and benghazi, and that is the correct procedure for handling such instances, is that not correct? >...

Had five security officers. a lot of security professionals who have reviewed this matter, even those who are critical that the state department did not do enough, have said that the kind of attack that took place would have been very difficult to repel. that's what we have to learn from, congresswoman. you know, there are many, there are many lessons going back to beirut, going back to tehran and the takeover of our embassy and going all the way through these years. and sometimes we learn lessons and we actually act and we do the best we can, and there's a perfect, terrible example of that wi...

Not had the amount of money that we thought would be necessary to do what was required to protect everyone, so, of course, there had to be priorities. and that was something that the security professionals dealt with. i think that both admiral mullen and ambassador pickering made it very clear that they thought the high threat posts should move to a higher level of scrutiny, and we had immediately moved to do that. >> thank you. >> thank the gentleman. the chair would now recognize the gentlelady from indiana, ms. brooks. >> morning, secretary clinton. >> morning. >> thank you for being here t...

I'll give you, i have a minute and seven seconds. >> well, thank you, congressman. i think there has been some confusion, and i welcome the opportunity to try to clarify it to the best of my ability with respect, as you rightly point out, the claims that were made about the cables. i think you have explained the fact which is that it's the longstanding tradition of the state department for cables from around world to be sent to and sent from the state department under the signature, over the signature of the secretary of state. it's a stamp, it's just part of the tradition. there are millions ...