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Nations on september 25th? why did our ambassador to the united nations in interviews five days after the attack also try to blame on the hateful video when it was clear from the earliest hours of the attack that it was sophisticated, that it was a sophisticated offensive? that no protest ever occurred outside of our consulate in benghazi and if ambassador rice was relying on intelligence assessments as she insists, why were those assessments so dramaticly at odds with the earliest reports from our people on the ground? most importantly, why does the administration still appear to have no poli...

Supervisor agent. he is author of a book that you see on your screen there. he was on the ground after the uss cole attack. now you are coming in as a supervising agent. investigating what happened. what is the malaria -- what similarities and differences are there with uss cole and after benghazi? >> with uss cole we lost 17 sailors. with benghazi, it is difficult to find a legitimate partner in benghazi. in yemen we had the difficulty, too. but i think that we were able to identify those who were involved and were able to interrogate them and get instructions from them. we were able to link ...

>> that's a judgment that people made at the time and i respect their judgment. my judgment at this time is four americans were killed and the information that u.n. ambassador conveyed was clearly false. it was overwhelming evidence that it was completely false and she should have known what the situation, circumstances were and not tell the world on all sunday morning talk shows, i was on one show and right after that the libyan president of the national assembly said no, it was an al qaeda attack? did she even listen to them? all i can say everybody makes their own judgment. we have made our...

>> [inaudible]. >> well i say with great respect that is one of the dumbest questions i ever heard, all right? there are four dead americans. there is four dead americans. not a socialite, not a socialite. i'm answering your question. do you want me to answer your question or interrupt? which do you want? okay. there are four dead americans. their lives of other americans were put in jeopardy. this is a matter of four dead americans. i think that the other issue raised is very serious and i think it deserves a thorough and complete investigation but it does not rise to the level of an attack o...

Quoting now, about exactly what happened they changed their assessment, end quote. why is that not acceptable and is that the president's defense tonight? >> well, it's, going to be his defense and it is unacceptable. not just an amorphous group called the intelligence community. for instance the state department itself had peel on the scene in benghazi that night. did susan rice speak to them? did the president find out what they saw that night? did they ask the state department if they had any videos what occurred at the consulate that night? why with all these threats leading up to septembe...