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>> exactly, what happened before the attack. his view was what terrorist threats or improving, the arab spring will take care of everything, that could be a motivating factor. it turned out to be a dangerous and deadly place. whether you want to call it a political cover-up perhaps we will find out a little bit of that today as well. >> there is a military question here as well over the course of 10 hours, the pentagon has officially said that there was not time to scramble military assets to affect any kind of a

Reporter: the president talked about the acts of terror the days after benghazi. including why u.s. forces weren't sent in in a way that could have perhaps prevented the second attack. and statements from administration officials that seemed to blame the attack not on terrorists, but anti-islam films that were angering muslims all over the world. the best assessment that we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, meditated attack. that would happen initially is that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in cairo, egypt, as a consequence of the video. the peopl...

202011 until july 26th2012. as the regional security officer or rso for the embassy in tripoli i served as the principal security advisors to u.s. ambassadors eugene kretz and chris stevens on security and law enforcement matters. i want to thank the committee again for opportunity to appear and provide further testimony and support of your inquiry into the tragic events of september 11th, 2012. i would also like to thank the committee in your continued efforts in investigating all the details and all the decisions related to the attack on our diplomatic facility. specifically the committee's ...

Before the attack that is as much a part of criticism from september the 11th itself, i think these witnesses, given their positions, the deputy cheat and the alter ego in effe stevens, the counterterrorism bureau, those who have a sense of a worldwide terrorist threat, and eric nordstrom, the regional security officer who has already testified of his continued frustration and enhanced security who may well give us a sense of the retaliation, he has already experienced as a whistleblower. i think that is the most important point. and this is not political finger-pointing, this is people that e...

Facility to provide reinforcement to repeal the attack. with that knowledge i called the operations center at the state department approximately 10:00 p.m. to report the attack and, what we were doing to respond to it. the next thing i did was to calling senior officials in the government of libya that i knew at the time. i dialed first the president's chief of staff and reported the attack and asked for immediate assistance from the government of libya to assist our folks in because because. i followed that off with a call to the prime minister's chief of staff to make the same request. and t...