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Threat outposts around the world. essentially, and seemingly, with the switch of a -- the flick of a switch. and further, if it's just a funding issue, how could with all of the attacks and threats that the smc had been dealing with throughout all of 2012, including an ied attack in june, how could all of those threats not add up to a response of, we need additional security? we're not asking for paper clips here. we are asking for security. >> well, these kind of situations, you never have -- you never have all of the threat information that you'd like to have so i think, you know, there was ...

Here. the secretary of the state is responsible. she was the one who made the decision to reopen diplomatic relations with libya. she was not necessarily the one to carry out a particular security plan in benghazi. as tom pickering who headed this review board indicated, where the rubber hits the road is at the assistant secretary level. there's two bureaus, in the judgment of the committee, failed to do what needed to be done and those four individuals have been held responsible. >> p.j. i got to say your column bummed me out today and confused me a little. a few months ago it was asked of a ...

Security. the target was ten embassies a year to be rebuilt and it was something more like three. you know, i just question whether there will be the consistent political will over time to invest more significantly as senator kerry said to the extent of military affairs. >> i guess the other issue and you wrote about it here is expeditionary diplomacy. the risk of diplomats is more than maybe it used to be. i guess a broader issue raised by this is what is the acceptable, when's the level of risk to sort of as a country be willing to accept for our diplomats in conflict zones like benghazi? >>...

Benghazi right now. a day after the pentagon said they didn't have evidence that libyan forces under gadhafi were using air power, you saw plenty of gadhafi air power today near benghazi. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, what we saw was we were on the road leading to where there was a battle all day long in brega between opposition forces and the libyan army. we watched as overhead a libyan jet first dropped a bomb outside brega and then came back and flew low overhead and drop ad bomb right knox to the road where we were. we were with a group of opposition fighters and soldiers who had gone ...

To gadhafi. in the end, they have to do something in some way, they may be forced to make a decision that honestly they don't seem to want to make right now. they seem to be playing for time, wolf. >> here's what was worrying, surprising to me, even shocking. yesterday both gates and mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs, they say they have no evidence that gadhafi is using air power to go after his enemies today we saw it on tape. gadhafi launched air strikes in benghazi. you saw ben wedeman get out with his life and our own cnn crew. is that possible? there were so many eyewitness reports...