and we identified those people to the secretary of state in accordance with the charge in the law and the material that accompanied the law when it was passed in 1998. it s interesting you bring up 1998. this was packed in the wake of the embassy attacks in east africa back then, and the first ever arb report, based after that, was about embassy security. and i m curious, how much do you feel, as if, when you read that first arb report, and compared it to the one you and admiral mullen ended up coming up with, there are a lot of similar recommendations to the two. do you feel as if the first recommendations for the first arb were not implemented? they were not fully. and one of the principle recommendations with respect to the construction of new embassies and consulates be implemented. in that regard, the congress was not able to provide the funding necessary to carry out those
this began with the chairman s statement. the chairman said, at the outset of hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don t know the truth. that this is the first investigation we ve ever had. the reality is we have had eight investigations. we ve gone through this endlessly, and, if you just look at the documentary record, we have the arb report. we have the report of the armed services committee led by republican buck mckeon, which debunked the stand-down order allegations. we have the report of the committee on government reform. we have the report of the senate homeland security committee. we have the report of the house
gain. if they show statesmanship and get really serious and focus the questions on the essential question you asked right at the beginning, could this attack have been prevented? if their entire line of questioning is essentially under that umbrella, they gain credibility and it will help them politically. for hillary clinton, she cannot look like a politician up there. if she doesn t get rattled, even if her answers are unfulfilling, she survives. where i think she s vulnerable goes back to the question. there were two things in her purview, security. the best questioning on trey goudy has been on the a.r.b. report, they had a similar one 20 years ago after those embassy attacks, the first essentially osama bin laden attacks on
inhalation. and one of the recommendations in this arb report is that when we have safe havens, we need to have equipment that will enable people that are safe within them to withstand what happened in benghazi. the lead diplomatic security officer who was with both the ambassador and sean smith endeavored to lead them to safety through a wall of black smoke. he wanted to get them out of the compound interior up to the roof where they could be out of the fire and also out of the attackers assault. he himself nearly died of smoke inhalation. when he looked around to make sure that both sean and chris were with him, he couldn t find
in particular, comment on where this began with the chairman s statement. the chairman said at the outset of the hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don t know the truth. that this is the first investigation we ve ever had. the reality is, we ve had eight investigations. we ve gone through this endlessly. and if you just look at the docume docume documentary record, we have the arb report. we have the report of the armed services committee led by republican buck mckeon which debunked the standdown order allegation. we have the report of the committee on government reform. we have the report of the senate homeland security committee.