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Extraordinary thing and requires our attention as a people. as a citizen i made the determination that this outweighs all other interests and will risk whatever circumstances may result from my testimony. i served as site security team commander in libya from 12 february to 14 august of this year, 2012. i was mobilized from the utah national guard in title 10 status and reported to special operations command, africa, soc africa which serves directly under after if i come. i was detailed in title 22 status to the department of state and assumed command of the sst the sst element consisted of 16...

Security. we want to know who in the department of state has the authority to deny a request from an ambassador who feels like his life may be in danger for additional security. i can't imagine any place in the world more dangerous than libya right now. so if we're pulling security out of libya i'd like to know where we're taking it and if the ambassador is saying he feels threatened and there have been assassination attempts against judges and police officers and the british ambassador, if that is not enough to ramp up security, then we need to close the embassy and close the consulate. if th...

Four. chairman issa saying this morning there is the political question and then there is a practical matter of security. >> the reason i called my committee back during this period of time in which most members are home campaigning, was that i thought it was so important that we get to the truth about the failure of security, because we have hundreds of missions an embassies and cons let's around the world, and if this has been repeated even once, and i don't act quickly then i failed to meet my obligation. >> reporter: two final points, this i shall you've the demonstration is important, num...

Criminal organizations. targeted attacks against westerners were on the increase. in june the ambassador received a threat on facebook with a public announcement that he would like to run around the embassy compound in tripoli. when i arrived in february there were three msd teams on the ground. ambassador kretz was confronted having to lose one of those teams and requested an equal number of regular diplomatic security agents. the ambassador struggled with renewing the sst beyond april 5th. that's ambassador stevens. the second msd team was withdrawn shortly after ambassador kretz's departure...

Catherine herridge is live in washington. what are we expecting to come out of this hearing, or what are we expecting to happen during the hearing, kat catherine. >> reporter: we have the statement for the records of the four witnesses, they are the chief points of contact the decision makers if you will for security in benghazi. whether it was diplomatic or military security. we are waiting for the hearing to begin led by congressmen chaffetz and ice satisfactory. 230 security-related incidents in libya in the year up to the attack and a short time ago chairman issa was not ruling out calling...