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I say that in quotes normalization as swiftly as possible and that meant hire as many libyans as you can. there's not a rent a cop around the corn. they barely have an government let alone to train people to provide the security needed in benghazi and tripoli. you have to look at the country as a whole but i mean look at the result, the consequences. an active al qaeda, other terrorists that are active and we have four dead americans at a compound that as a member of congress i can't visit. the fbi had trouble getting in there to visit it. so that's -- it's still a problem. >> jason chaffetz, ...

Combination of the obama defense cuts with sequestration will be devastating to our military. it will further weaken our standings in the world and embolden our adversaries. >> what about benghazi? do you think that is a legitimate issue for this campaign? do you think the president should be held responsible for what happened in that terror attack? >> well of course. even the president would concede that he's accountable for everything that happens in his administration. look, what happened in libya in benghazi was a preplanned terrorist attack that was carried out on the anniversary of 9/11 ...

Had assassination attempts. twice in the six-month leadup you had bombings at our compound there in benghazi and it's 9/11 in libya. what other warnings do you need? that seems like a clear and present danger unto itself. if you can't add that up as a potential security threat, my goodness, all the signs were there. there was a request for more personnel. that was denied. they reduced the number of personnel. they asked for building up of the infrastructure, that was denied. there were waivers that clearly were put in place. even still today, in tripoli, you don't meet the basics of what needs...

Security wasn't dictating security but that politics were dictating security. for instance, i was there most all the day, never once did a single person mention a video, like it was not a factor. and it's -- it's -- what the administration was saying in the reality of what i heard on the ground were two different things. >> the administration had come to the conclusion that it was terrorist terrorism, they got it wrong in initially but what about the key question whether they overlooked security concerns, intelligence warnings? did anyone share with you the allegations that more security was r...

Requested by chris stevens, the ambassador, and that was denied. have you been told that? >> yes, i have. and we're talking about, you know, we're talking about in the neighborhood of two dozen people or less. let's remember that president obama has essentially a private army in iraq of 15,000, 15,000 security personnel there at the embassy in baghdad and the surrounding area and we're talking about, you know, half dozen here, another half dozen there in libya, after revolution, after two bombings, on our facilities, assassination attempts of the british ambassador. they're asking for a handfu...