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I m not sure in that s case an air strike would have saved anybody s life and might have cost some more. there was one critical flaw, when you talk to people in the pentagon, brian, they identified after this, which was that the rescue squads that would go in to get an ambassador, nearest one was basically on the continental united states, on as you say the anniversary of september 11th. there are now such squads, a whole lot closer, including some in europe. unclear they ever could have got tonight libya in time to save ambassador stevens. in fact, unlikely that they could. but it probably was a serious deficit on part of the pentagon and the state department that there wasn t a thought-out rescue squad scenario, either for libya or for egypt, which of course is where they thought the big protest would happen that day. exactly right. david sanger, new york times. appreciate your time. thank you for being with us. as we bring in our next guest, who really whose name ....
Telling. absolutely, yes. and there was a moment secretary clinton got a long stretch of being able to tell her account what she did, what she went through what she was trying to accomplish. as soon as she heard there was a problem, and there wasn t anyone in that room who could find any fault with what she was doing once she heard there was a problem in benghazi. gene? i agree. i would say that s the part, to me, kind of got us away from politics for a minute, because it was just a gripping, fascinating, and at times harrowing description minute to minute, tick tock of what happened. they looked for him there and the state department officer went in and found could not find the embassy and didn t know where he was and finally found him in a hospital where the libyans tried to revive him for two hours. that a lot of that was detail and i realize a lot of it has come out, but to hear the ....
Price. whether or not that lowest price is the best contract. and we had a hot of challenges not just in libya, but many places around the world trying to work to find the right contractors to provide static security for a lot of our posts and facilities. to find more kinetic contractors who could be the frontline of defense since we as we discussed earlier, were stationed in so many places where there were not american military that could be called and quickly respond. so i would like very much and perhaps there could be a working group with armed services and foreign affairs and others to look to see whether we couldn t get a little more flexibility into this decision-making. because the february 17th militia was viewed by the cia, which had vetted it as well as ....
That are out there. would these type of issues with the contracting and the host nation requirements? yes, we do. the host nation gets to call a lot of the shots. under the vienna convention, the host nation is responsible for providing security for diplomatic posts. but when a host nation is either unwilling to do so as we do have in some places where we are present or unable to do so because i do think with the libyans, there was a desire to be helpful but not a capacity to produce what we needed. we have to really work hard to get the kind of support that is required. and in some cases we ve been able to work out arrangements with the host countries, some we ve just defied them and tried to be very quiet about what we ....
Many of whom are here today with you. so jake sullivan, one of your close advisers that you just told us about, put together the tick tock on libya memo. and that was a memo that was all about you. it put together 22 different accomplishments and you were the central figure in all 22 of those accomplishments. i ve got to tell you, it s really well put together. he uses language of action, initiative and leadership. hrc, that s you, obviously, announces, directs, appoints special enjoy, travels to g-8, secures russian abstention, secures transition of command and control, travels to berlin, rome, abu dhabi, istanbul. he s basically laying the foundation that the libya policy is your policy. essentially he s making the argument that it s your baby. and you were clearly familiar with this timeline because, in e-mail exchanges with your ....