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And look, i didn't think this committee should have been formed in the first place. but if it was going to be formed, the least we could do would be to actually focus on the four brave americans who were killed, why they were killed, and focus on benghazi. and we have not. i mean, mr. raskom's question, he wanted to debate why we got into benghazi in the first place. that's debatable, and i think you will argue that quite well, but that's not about the attack on benghazi. that's not about what we could have done in benghazi to better protect them. so again, i think we've seen that this committ...

This pile represents the e-mails that you sent or received about libya in 2011, from february through december of 2011. this pile represents the e-mails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. there's 795 e-mails in this pile. we've counted them. there are 67 e-mails in this pile in 2012. and i'm troubled by what i see here. and so my questions relate to these piles. in this pile in 2011, i see daily updates, sometimes hourly updates from your staff about benghazi and chris stevens. when i look at this pile in 2012, i only see a handful of e-mails to you from your sen...

So just to refresh that recollection, i believe initially the goal was to go in for 30 days. were you personally briefed on his security plan prior to him going into libya? because at that time, if i'm not mistaken, i'm sorry to interrupt, gadhafi's forces were still battling the rebels, correct? >> that's right. >> and so what were -- were you personally briefed before you sent mr. stevens into benghazi? >> i was personally told by the officials who were in the state department who were immediately above chris who were making the plans for him to go in that it was going to be expeditionary di...

That matter benghazi belonged to you in 2011, it was yours, so to speak. and there your own records that we have, we saw a drop in your interest in libya and benghazi in 2012. not only do the records show your drop in interest in benghazi, it was even noticed by your own staff. i want to point this out -- say this because i want to point you to an e-mail in early february 2012 between two staffers at your libya desk that says you didn't know whether we still even had a presence in benghazi. let's not use my words. let's use theirs. this can be found at tab 31. the e-mail says, and it's dated f...

And their top security experts from the defense department to get a better idea of the 19 high-threat posts. and that's exactly what we did. and it gave us some guidance to try to have better planning ahead of time. i know admiral mullen testified that it would be beyond the scope of our military to be able to provide immediate reaction to 270 posts. but that's why we tried to narrow down. and, of course, we do get help from our military in war zones. the military's been incredibly supportive of our embassy in kabul and our embassy in baghdad. but we have a lot of hot spots now and very danger...