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Occurred, quote, bears the principal responsibility for what happened. the response moved up the military chain of command for everyone who failed to see the protocols were totally mismatched to the dangers they were in, in beirut. the president was a republican, the congress was democrat. but that made that partisanship completely beside the point. before that barracks bombing in beirut, there had already been another terrible, deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in beirut. and after the marine barracks bombing in beirut, after the recommendations for increasing safety from that bipartisan repo...

>> madam sect, this isey or no. do you think you complied with the arb in 1998, personally review the secretary at pentagon benning. >> that's not my understanding of the -- >> just -- the words are right there. >> i just answered, i personally reviewed security recommendations of chancery and other official facilities recommended because they were highly vulnerable, and threatened to be closed, and we closed some. some we were able to re-open, which is kind of part of the process. with respect to the 1998arb recommendations, by the time i became secretary, having succeeded two secretaries who...

Congressman. >> madam secretary, they didn't get through, it didn't help them. were those responded to? is that your testimony today? >> many were responded to. there were affirmative responses to a number of requests for additional security -- >> and you laid it on chris stevens, didn't you? you said earlier, he knows where to pull the levers. so aren't you implying that it's his responsibility to figure out how he's supposed to be secure? because chris stevens knows how to pull the levers? is that your testimony? >> ambassadors are the ones who pass on security recommendations and requests. ...

>> madame secretary, they didn't get through. it didn't help them. were those responded to? is that your testimony today? >> many were responded to. there were affirmative responses to a number of requests for additional security. >> you said earlier he knows where to pull the levers. aren't you implying that it is his responsibility to figure out how he is supposed to be secure because chris stevens knows how to pull the levers? >> ambassadors pass on security recommendations and requests. that is true throughout the world. >> when he does -- what is his remedy if they are not responded to? w...

Request subsequent to the august 16 cable, our personnel in libya had not submitted any additional security requests to washington at the time of the september 11th attack. there was an ongoing dialogue between libya and washington. >> reclaiming my limited time. an emergency meeting was held and a cable sent out on august 16 by the ambassador himself warning what could happen and this cable went unnoticed by your office. that is the bottom line. >> the facts as we have them, congress plan and i am happy to have people give this in detail, it stated that security requests for benghazi would be...