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Signs. >> bill: they were watching egypt as you remember, egypt went up before. that's where the military was watching. not a backwater like benghazi. i don't blame the military here. all right, i've got to get on to brennan. all right, so brennan the architect of the drones, blowing people up all over the world. >> 700% increase-- 700% increase from george bush. >> bill: as we pointed out a hypocrisy how the media covers it, hysterical over the waterboarding, but nothing about drones strikes, but now-- i believe that the cia is doing what they should do to eliminate these al-qaeda people and ...

>> bill: they were watching egypt as you remember, egypt went up before. that's where the military was watching. not a backwater like benghazi. i don't blame the military here. all right, i've got to get on to brennan. all right, so brennan the architect of the drones, blowing people up all over the world. >> 700% increase-- 700% increase from george bush. >> bill: as we pointed out a hypocrisy how the media covers it, hysterical over the waterboarding, but nothing about drones strikes, but now-- i believe that the cia is doing what they should do to eliminate these al-qaeda people and protect...

That's it places a lot of blame on 0 lower level officials and why i find that quite puzzling is because benghazi and libya is not a remote outpost. so understand who washington is. >> someone in the white house changed the talking points from general petraeus and the cia before they were given to ambassador rice. someone changed them. do either one of you guys know? do you care? >> the responsible officials at the state department overlooked mounting evidence that the security situation in benghazi was deteriorating. >> tough questions on the hill today in senate and house hearings on the ben...

Need to protect the troops. when diplomats are deployed, the first level of security by the host nation. i think if there was a misjudgment here, it was underestimating not only, you know, the risk in benghazi but overestimating the ability of the libyan government, a very new government to provide the basic level of security for the diplomats in a city like benghazi and a mismatch together with as your clip said, not reading properly the warning signs evolving over the summer of 2012. that combination created the circumstances where there was simply not enough security on the ground when this...

And why would a request for security be denied? >> well, to the latter question, latter point first, there's simply not the level of resources to be able to fully fund an evolving mission that was not preplanned. benghazi and the return to the embassy, that's something that came up in the course of the year and as the report indicates, the state department put resources in to that challenge but on a temporary rotating aspect. in other words, they were robbing peter to pay paul and that kind of circumstance, there was not an adequate level of security. you know, look. bad things happen around t...