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The top State Department diplomatic security official in Afghanistan was removed from his role for declaring the "death of America" and making racist comments about Kamala Harris in a post on his Facebook page when President Donald Trump lost November's presidential election, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
I'm not a security professional, but you appear to -- >> so you're out of sync right now with the answer received from the department of justice. that is an interesting answer that you just gave that you may have been out of sync. the question now becomes is policy procedure failed or not failed. this is a serious investigation which i take seriously. if you should have been read out you should have been read out. that is my final answer, statement, not oppose. i yield back. >> the gentleman from rhode island, mr. scicilini is recognized. >> i look forward to a couple questions as each of my r...
Against broader kind of western pop culture that many extremist preachers feel as though was attacking their religious values. it could have been, frankly, just a soft target. if you look in this case, the suicide bomber went just outside the security perimeter, but then also positioned himself in a choke point so that he was going to cause maximum damage. one of the things that a security professional, there is a lot of focus on people coming into a venue. there's a lot of focus on the venue itself but there's not a lot on the egress. that something that we will have to look at much more clos...
Contact and cable contact with -- >> cables didn't get through. you created an environment, madam secretary, where the cables couldn't get through. >> well, that is inaccurate. cables as we have testified -- >> they didn't get through to you. they didn't break into your inner circle. that was your testimony earlier. you can't have it both ways. you can't say all this information came to me and i was able to parenthesis it and it all stops at the security professional. >> congressman, that's not what i was saying. i think we've tried to clarify that, you know, millions of cables come in. they a...
Terrorist incident in libya, are they scoring points against her? or is she holding her own? >> think one of the things i wish the committee members would explore a little bit more is this question of why so many of these requests for additional security from chris steven, from others in libya, things i've been reporting on since october 2012, we have had a lot of testimony in the past two years plus about these requests. when i asked secretary clinton about how i never understood why they weren't met, she said there are security professional who is are the kinds of people who put their lives ...