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Ambassador and from his security officers to enhance their ability to protect themselves in libya. we say well, why didn't the state department grant that enhanced security and some people say well, of course, you can't blame secretary clinton or president obama for that. i don't agree with that, either. the security -- the policy from which security decisions flow comes from the top, and if the policy, if the world view is that everything's fine in libya, you know, it's sort of like iceland, of course you're not going to grant questions for more security down in the bowels of the bureaucracy....

Security decisions in benghazi from house lawmakers, bret, who have been reviewing classified documents in this case. >> bret: we'll follow all of that. thank you. please join me for a special look at the libya terror attack friday night. a one-hour presentation, "special report" investigates death and deceit in benghazi. it can be seen tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern. so set the dvr. the clock many in washington hear ticking louder every day is countdown to the end of the year and what is the fiscal cliff. it's fast approaching. chief white house correspondent ed henry reports tonight on the l...

Campaign, john, these debates are moving the needle. it is pretty safe to say tonight could be a make-or-break moment for either one of these guys. jon: some historic numbers out of the first debate, that's for sure. john roberts at hofstra university. >> thanks, jon. >> i want to do everything we can to protect our people and i also want to make sure we track done however did this and bring them to justice. jenna: this is big news today. for the first time, secretary of state hillary clinton accepting blame for any security lapses before the terror attacks on our consulate in libya that kille...

Clinton told wendell goler and a host of other reporters in lima, peru that the president and mr. biden, neither one were involved in security decisions at the consulate in benghazi. and the other thing she said mr. ambassador is i want to avoid some kind of political gotcha. how does that frame this issue? >> yeah, they want to divert attention from this. they want to say it's just political. but the death of an american ambassador, the first since jimmy carter, over 30 years ago is not a republican issue, it's not a democratic issue, it's an american issue. and americans want to know the ans...

Security secretary is saying that biden link the libya attack to a protest over that video erroneously because the intelligence community was providing that information. general michael hayden who led the c.i.a. and michael chertoff, both officials in bush administration they are, quote, disappointed by the vice president's remark. it is clear that any failure was not on the part of the intelligence community but on the part of the white house decision makers who should have listened to and acted on available intelligence. vice president also said the white house has not been alerted to any ad...