Very much, mr. Chairman. I just want to clarify. I was asking secretary clinton a moment ago i mentioned an email that had gone from ambassador Chris Stevens to deputy secretary lamb. What i meant to say was a cable. The record will reflect that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Secretary clinton, im 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, 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 Meetings on the ground immediately. In fact, there were at least five on record for june alone in both tripoli and benghazi. That is the correct procedure for handling such incidents, is that correct . That is correct. My job is to make sure we never put brave americans like shawn spieth, glen dougherty, Chris Stevens anywhere in the World Without the protection they so rightly deser
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The rest, tomorrow at noon on cspan. The first part of the hearing is about 4. 5 hours. Representative gowdy good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair notes the presence of a quorum. Good morning. Welcome, madam secretary. Welcome to each of you. This is a public hearing of the benghazi select committee. Just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. Madam secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but i want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any reason or for no reason. If you or anyone, just simply alert me, then we will take a break and it can be for any reason or for no reason. To our guests, we are happy to have you here. The witness deserves to hear the questions and the members deserve to hear the answers. So proper decorum must be observed at all times no reaction to questions or answers, no disruptions. Some committees take an incremental approach to decorum. I do not. This is your one and only notice. Madam secretary, the Rank
More than 100 interviews, identifies specific employee specific employee at the state department who denied these requests. It was Deputy Assistant secretary of the bureau of Diplomatic Security charlene lamb. Again, she did come before the oversight company. The arb report was very critical of her. It was also critical of her two supervisors, principle Deputy Assistant secretary and the assistant secretary for Diplomatic Security. The Oversight Committee found the same answer as the arb. It found this official denied these requests and found no evidence that you approved or denied them. The problem is that republicans just keep asking the same question over and over again and pretend they dont know the answer. In 2013 the republican chairman of five house committees issued a report falsely accusing you personally of denying these requests in a cable over your signature. The next day, the next day, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, darrell issa, went on National Television and a
that there weren t the required number of security on the ground in order for the individual to even move about the country to provide you with what you have reiterated on numerous occasions as being very important at that time, which is political reporting. . could you tell me. who are the names on this e-mail you re talking? turn to tab 31. have you a book in front of you. it is alice abdallah and i m going to pronounce it yong, satarres. they were not on my staff. i m not in any way contradicting what they think they heard or what they heard somebody say. but the people can you tell me who they were if they were not on your staff? they were in the state department along with thousands of other people. they were not part of the secretary s staff. but i get what you re saying, congresswoman. and i want to focus on this because i think it s a fair and important question.
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