you, in all the things that you ve covered on capitol hill, in all the investigations you ve seen whether or not they re national security matters, is it normal to have one witness in the chair for 11 straight hours? reporter: that is not normal. it s also not normal to have a bipartisan panel where they can t agree on the rules, where they don t go according to any kind of set procedure. and i m thinking back to iran contra, the investigation that i covered, and several of the other really important investigations. just as hillary clinton frankly mentioned, a number of investigations following state department security failures and terrible tragedies, going all the way back to the beirut bombing during the reagan years. and the embassy bombings under bill clinton in nairobi. and all of these investigations, 18, before this one, of these accountability review boards. and i can t recall one that has become this political.
other really important investigations. just as hillary clinton frankly mentioned, a number of investigations following state department security failures and terrible tragedies, going all the way back to the beirut bombing during the reagan years. and the embassy bombings under bill clinton in nairobi. and all of these investigations, 18, before this one, of these accountability review boards. and i can t recall one that has become this political. and she said and i know it serves her purpose, but her opening statement was when can we get back to a bipartisan approach to these tragedies, so whether it s under george w. bush after 9/11, although i must say the 9/11 commission and a lot of those investigations were pretty tough on the bush administration officials, so perhaps that s not a fair analogy, but certainly after the embassy bombings and after the beirut bombing you saw in both republican and democratic administrations you never had
on september 11th, 2012. a very important day in the history of the united states of america. you were mocked for bringing up a report in the post-african embassy bombings because there were systems or reforms that should have been put in place since that time and the left was those on the left literally on your left were mocking you for bringing stuff like that up. why would you think it was relevant? the secretary puts a lot of emphasis on these internal reviews that the accountability review boards do throughout time. back in 1998 there were 200 people killed. and one of the most important findings from that particular arb was that the secretary of state, not her deputy, not her assistant, but the secretary of state herself, had the responsibility of personal review security at high-threat situations around the world. secretary clinton chose to ignore that. i think that matters. it s a significant point. in fact it was brought out yesterday, it was elicited that in fact huma a
stronger. after the benghazi attacks, i asked ambassador thomas pickering, one of our most distinguished and longest-serving diplomats, along with admiral mike mullen, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff appointed by president george w. bush, to lead an accountability review board. this is an institution that the congress set up after the terrible attacks in beirut. there have been 18 previous accountability review boards. only two have ever made any of their findings public. one following the attacks on our embassies in east africa and the one following the attack on benghazi. the accountability review board did not pull a single punch. they found systemic problems and management deficiencies in two
stronger. after the benghazi attacks, i asked ambassador thomas pickering, one of our most distinguished and longest-serving diplomats, alongwith admiral mike mullen, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, appointed by president george w. bush, to lead an accountability review board. this is an institution that the congress set up after the terrible attacks in beirut. there have been 18 previous accountability review boards. only two have ever made any of their findings public, the one following the attacks on our embassies in east africa, and the one following our, the attack on benghazi. the accountability review board did not pull a single punch. they found systemic problems and management deficiencies in two