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Up-to-date information and so that we can figure out what we have to do securitiwise. what we have to do intelligencewise. what we have to do with the military. what we have to do diplomaticwise. what we have to do on the public apfairs front. that works for the chief of mission and i can't emphasize that enough. we're not there to subsume any activities. the experts on the team are, know that the real experts are in the embassy and they work for the chief of mission to do that. my time is drawing to a close. i'll end there and await your questions. >> thank you. >> >> we really will have, you...

One definition of a crisis is, you don't know what is going to happen in two hours, so you need to help develop that situation early. we have a robust com suite on the airplane are transported on. it is ably flown by my socom colleagues. it is on alert to do just this mission and it is designed to carry a comprehensive team to a conflict or a crisis and to the ambassador and work for the ambassador and or the chief of mission to handle that crisis and to make sure that he or she has the best information possible to make decisions and to make recommendations back to washington and those same re...

And say that i also discussed with the annex chief about mobilizing a tripoli response team and we agreed that we would move forward with a chartering a plane from tripoli to fly a response team to benghazi to provide additional reinforcements. the defense attache was also reporting through his chain of command back to africom and to the joint staff here in washington about what was going on in the country. david mcfar land, our political section chief, had just returned from benghazi where he had been our principle officer for the previous ten days. so he jumped into this picture by reaching ...

National security council deploys that organization but i wanted that considered. i notified the white house of my idea. they indicated that meetings had already taken place that evening. that had taken fest out of the menu of options. i called the on office of the state department that asked representative there and asked why it was taken off the table. i was told that it was not the right time and it was no the team that needed to go right then. let me explain the team a little more. it is comprised of the leadership from my office. it is comprised of professionals from special operations co...