the hearings today. panetta talking about the giant screw-up in benghazi, libya and brennan explaining the killer drone, does he want to be the next cia director. and let s talk benghazi first, did you learn anything? well, one thing that was interesting i thought from the panetta testimony is when general dempsey, he testified with leon panetta chairman of the joint chiefs and he said he was surprised when he was pressed that hillary clinton didn t read that all important august 15th cable, right, where chris stevens said, we aren t going to be able to repel and attack in benghazi with what we have. and he was pressed on that. are you surprised she didn t see he it, well, yeah, i was surprised. it looked like there was buck passing from panetta and dempsey to the state
the hearings today. panetta talking about the giant screw-up in benghazi, libya and brennan explaining the killer drone, does he want to be the next cia director. and let s talk benghazi first, did you learn anything? well, one thing that was interesting i thought from the panetta testimony is when general dempsey, he testified with leon panetta chairman of the joint chiefs and he said he was surprised when he was pressed that hillary clinton didn t read that all important august 15th cable, right, where chris stevens said, we aren t going to be able to repel and attack in benghazi with what we have. and he was pressed on that. are you surprised she didn t see he it, well, yeah, i was surprised. it looked like there was buck passing from panetta and dempsey to the state department because they said
giant screw up in benghazi, libya. john brennan explaining the killer drone situation to the senate because he wants to be the new cia director. joining us now from florida where she has been monitoring the proceedings today laura ingraham. so let s take benghazi first. did you learn anything? well, one thing that was interesting i thought from the panetta testimony is when general dempsey, he testified with leon panetta, chairman of the joint chiefs and he said he was surprised when he was pressed that hillary clinton didn t read that all important august 15th cable, right, where chris stevens said we aren t going to be able to repel an attack in benghazi with what we have. he was pressed on that. surprised didn t see it yeah, i would say i was surprised. i thought that was interesting. because it looked like buck passing going on panetta and demps dr. from the state
characterize as a catastrophic intelligence failure or cover-up. you believe the president or anyone serving the president deliberately mislead the american public about the attack for political reasons. absolutely not. that s correct. i blame the president more than anybody else. susan rice is a player here. was he informed of the june attack on our consulate where they blew a hole 40 people could go through? was he aware of the august 15th cable where he was steve s said we can t stand a coordinated attack. i blame the president for making this a death trap. i blame the president for not having assets available to help these people for eight hours. we need a select committee not only to look at intelligence failures but how could the department of defense not help these poor people over eight hours. mike, you heard senator graham there. what s the administration s reaction to this? a lot of strong views. it is an issue that is not going
relations committee would want to hear from secretary clinton and all those who are responsible for consulate security. the problem is that the three committees will not be able to hear what the other groups are saying. i d like to ask general petraeus some questions. and i m sure there are people on the intel committee would like to hear what the department of defense has to say about their handling of the benghazi attack. and when it comes to the state department all of us would like to know why were there so many, so many requests for additional security denied? in the august 15th cable back to washington where chris stevens is telling secretary clinton, we ve identified 10 al qaeda militia groups in benghazi. two of the 10 we now suspect were involved in the attack and in the final paragraph or close to the final paragraph the cable says, if there is a coordinated attack against the consulate, we can not defend it. so four americans are dead. the first ambassador is killed in 33 ye