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Extremists overran the u.s. consulate in benghazi, setting it ablaze andhen storming the near annex. killing ambassador chris stevens as well as an information officer and two former navy s.e.a. s.e.a.l.s. >> with specific security requests, they didn't come to me, i had no knowledge of them. >> now, this committee, the benghazi select committee is the one that uncovered hillary clinton's sole use of private e-mail and the fact that she housed her e-mail, stored her e-mails on a private server in her new york home. but one of the aims of this committee hearing is to question clinton's judgment...

E-mails more than that. literally no one cares about sid blumenthal's e-mails in america. they care about keeping people safe. the various issues these republicans have been upset about with respect to benghazi has changed so many times over the past several -- you know you cannot come away with any other impression that this is an effort to hurt her politically. so, you know, it's a disappointing taxpayer funded fishing effort to damage her campaign. >> tommy, even though i was white house correspondent at the time you and i talked about this at the time and i still don't officially or unoffi...

State department facility. in benghazi, libya. then again, it shows the increase in security being nonexistent. i assume your answer is the same with respect to the fact that we have increasing security incidents but no corresponding increase in the amount of security? >> congressman, i just have to respectfully disagree. many security requests were fulfilled. we would be happy to get that information for the record. so i can't really tell what it is you are putting on that poster but i know that a number of the security requests were fulfilled for benghazi. >> what it shows is the number of d...

Heroic dead did not lay down their lives in vain? vç attacks in benghazi, the congress never fully funded the security requests that the administration sent to congress. following benghazi that has improved but there are still areas where i think greater funding and responsive responsiveness would be helpful. it was unfortunate we didn't get all the resources that's might havable -- have enabled us to do more but i appreciate what the congress has done since. the one specific recommendation that i would like to see the congress act on expeditiously is the training facility set up in order to ...

Know how many there were? >> no, i do not. >> ma'am, there were 172-ish. might have been 171 or 173. how many were there in july and august and then in the week a few days before the attacks, do you know? >> a number of them, i know that. >> 83, by our count. that's over 600 requests. you've testified here this morning you had none of those reach your desk, is that correct also? >> that's correct. >> mr. blumenthal wrote you 150 e-mailings. it appears from the materials we've read all of those reached your desk. can you tell us why security requests from your professionals, the men that you ju...