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Attack. >> reporter: two weeks afte aftr state department whistleblowers challenged the white house account of benghazi, raymond maxwell, the deputy assistant secretary of state forced into administrative leave five months ago, considers himself a scapegoat in the affair. he's the only one of the four state department officials placed on administrative leave after benghazi who does not work for diplomatic security, and he told the daily beast, quote, the flaws in the process were perpetrated by the political leadership at state with the complicity of the senior career leadership. they should b...

Capacity, those kinds of things. so i have been very clear since it wasn't our mandate, i didn't do the investigation. and i'm not prepared or able to give you a thought on that. >> did you learn anything new in the hearings this week that you did not know at the accountability review board? >> i would say yes because i'm always interested in seeing what's new. i honestly did not. >> as far as you are concerned you think benghazi has been investigated and that information put out to the public as thoroughly as possible? >> no. because the fbi is responsible for the criminal investigation. and ...

Decisions were made. and she did not make the security decisions that we felt -- >> was that a problem, do you think? >> no, not at all. i think it was behind the legislation. we looked in to what the congress was saying at the time it passed the legislation to set up the process. and they said it is traditional for heads of agencies to take responsibility then nobody goes down and finds where the decisions were made. and that's what we'd like to see. and we would like to have people held responsible for those performance in those decisions. >> what do you make of the back and forth on the tal...

Levers to pull. what we've been trying to do, and we need your help to help us pay for what we are trying to do, we are trying to help them build a descent security force to try to reign in the militias as best they can. this was a constant conversation. >> before the attack in benghazi what had we done to help them build their security capacity? >> there is a long list and i'll be happy to provide that to you because it is filled with, you know, training, with equipment, with the kind of planning that they had not done before, and i'd be happy to send you the detail on that, senator. >> senat...

About, but they have their own problems now. they are having leaders attack and assassinated on a regular basis. we have to do more to build up the security capacity and i would ask this committee to work with us. there holds on a lot of the security funding that go to kwlab to assist them in building capacity. there those i know in the area that don't give them any money. it's in our best interest sb to give them the money with interest. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and thank you for being with us today and putting yourself through this. >> thank you. >> let me know that fixing the re...