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December of 2012 that the state department and d.o.d.isat initiative created a road map for addressing emerging security challenges. why did you partner with the department of defense to conduct such a high-priority review, and was it effective in addressing the shortfalls in benghazi and applying it for other locations? >> congresswoman, thank you very much, and thanks for your service and particularly your knowledge about these issues rising from your own military service and the service on the committees here in the house. it's very challenging to get military assets into countries that don...

Ms. duckworth. >> thank you -- thank you, mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i'm pleased that you finally have the opportunity to be here. before i start my line of questioning, i just want to clarify with regards to the april to june 2012 incidents, i believe that the procedure that the state department had for these types of incidents was to actually hold what are called emergency action committee hearings on the ground immediately. and in fact, there were at least five records for june alone on the ground in both tripoli and benghazi, and that is the correct procedure for handling such instan...

Presence in benghazi. i think she would be upset to hear yes, we do, but because we don't have enough security, they are on lockdown, end quote. and i say that this is very troubling to me because it raises several issues that i'd like to ask you about. i'm struck by the first part. quote, the secretary asked last week if we still have a presence in benghazi. now, you pointed out to mrs. brooks in her last line of questioning, based upon the e-mail stacks here, that you engaged in a lot of conversations and briefings. so i'm assuming that this conversation with this member of your staff took p...

Conducted any joint interagency planning and training exercises, this may have actually helped the state and d.o.d. to identify and fix existing vulnerabilities in the temporary mission facility in benghazi. moreover, regular communications between africom and the special mission in benghazi could have facilitated the prepositioning of military assets in a region where there were very real questions over the host country's ability to protect our diplomatic personnel. secretary clinton, within the weeks of the terrorist attacks in benghazi happening, following that, i understand you partnered w...

It would be, whether it would be appropriate for him to stay for a long time or a short time. that was very much going to depend upon chris's own assessment. we knew we were sending someone who understood the area, who understood the language, who understood a lot of the personalities because of the historical study that he used to love to do. and we were going to be guided by what he decided. >> i'd like to draw your attention to an e-mail. it's an e-mail found at tab 1. it's an ops center e-mail that was forwarded to you from huma abedin on sunday, march 27th, that says at the bottom of the ...