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Week on benghazi offered her no new details. >> i got a lot of answers but not the ones i really wanted. >> you want to know what? >> i want to know why there was no security there and the security that was there got pulled. and who is the one that told the military to stand down? basically. >> that's where you think the investigation needs to follow, who in the state department denied security requests in the months leading up to september 11, 2012, and what happened that night, why the military wasn't in position or did not help? >> true. i did hear some of the things that the whistle blower...

Were all the security requests denied and how could she not know about it? this was an attack a long time in the making. al qaeda flags were flying across benghazi. ambassador stevens said in august we can't defend the consulate. now we have e-mail traffic about changing the talking points. we got e-mails coming from libya saying definitively on the 12th of september this was a terrorist attack and here the groups are responsible. how could she on the 14th of september tell a family member, charles wood, the father of ty woods, we'll get the guy who made that video? did she know about the inte...

Patricia smith joins me now. thanks for being here. >> hello. >> congressman issa started off the hearing by pledging to get to the bottom of what happened in benghazi. >> our goal in this investigation is to get answers because their families deserve answers. they were promised answers at the highest level when their bodies came home. >> mrs. smith did you get the answers you were looking for at this hearing? >> no. >> did you get any answers? >> i got a lot of answers but not the ones i really wanted. >> you want to know what? >> i want to know why there was no security there and the securit...

Ranking officer, if you will, america's representative in libya. mr. eric nordstrom is a former regional security officer in libya. and perhaps, the foremost in the most knowledgeable person about security requests that were made and denied to the u.s. diplomatic mission in libya and also in benghazi, ultimately in benghazi. mr. cummings, we will have, from time to time, our disagreement. but i know that for all the members of this committee, we understand that these disagreements must be kept on the side of the desk. the brave witnesses deserve this committee was called to testify. the brave ...

Committee, and i will agree with congressman limpbl here, just the republicans, not the democrats, issued an interim report charging that then secretary of state clinton misled congress when she said that she had never seen any request for more security in libya. let's take a look at what she said. >> the specific security requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didn't see those requests. they didn't come to me. i didn't approve them. i didn't deny them. >> now, the house report by the republicans made a big deal of the fact th...