i think you re right, the mt. be asked about that. he is contradicting himself and tying nims knots. this happens in a coverup. tell the truth. it s easier to memorize. bret: we hear from the vice president to put blame on the intelligence community. you hear from dianne feinstein saying jim clapper put out statements. talking points. you hear the assessment evolve and you hear from the president saying i called it an act of terror on day one. what is the intelligence community thinking? they tried to throw hillary under the bus but she has resources including her husband and other people that might strike back that could be, was a report today, still speculative that there is traffic, cable traffic that would show that she had requested other security
this security element left in august despite the personnel in libya, the state department officials and others in libya asking for better security. bill: well, woods will tell these investigators, the house committee, that he met with stevens all the time. right. bill: so what he s going to do now, he will lay out a story and situation and scenario and where stevens all likelihood expressed danger he felt to his own life, right? that makes sense. absolutely. i don t want to sound overly cynical here but frankly washington, d.c. appears to be the black hole of investigations. where all investigations go to fade away and disappear. we get caught up in some other moment of outrage. but this is not, this is not a typical process. they should and i would hope, that they have, already, demanded all the cable traffic that bounces between benghazi and tripoli and washington, d.c., the state department headquarters, for the past year, ever since they set up the consulate in benghazi. get al
and called it good. they had a significant security force out there which they then chose despite a deteriorating situation they then chose to pull out of there despite the requests from the people inside. this has got to be a serious problem for the white house. bill: well, if that s what he says it has to be defended by someone also within the administration, whether the white house or the state department. absolutely. but what you ve got to do, you have to figure out where that path leads you to. admittedly they have to go through the process. i said same thing. it is not rocket science. you get all the cable traffic bouncing around. that gives you what you need then to sit down have interviews with people such as loot come they wood out there lieutenant colonel wood leading this force. department of state out there with maybe mobile security team. talk with the secure officer. and talk to people actually deployed in benghazi. you have all the information you need and . bill: m
you see happening right now from the state department and the pentagon? one immediate effect is that the state department who s diplomatic cable traffic had all been running through a pentagon computer system, they re going to stop that. for the time being and perhaps permanently. this is one of those decisions made after 9/11 and it was designed to kind of break down silos between various government agencies so each would have access to traffic from other agencies. but i think the state department s point of view is you know, your cables are now being shared with the world and it s quite destructive and hampers our ability to do business and it wasn t even our computer system. so, i think there will be some rethinking of some of this sharing of data and secretary clinton made it very clear she wants to see a higher level of security so she doesn t have to deal with another breach of this kind. she s taking the heat and is out front, but a lot of people
of course, strategic interest continue to be concerned. they need to be sure that those nuclear assets are all kept surf. the pakistani government was concerned about how the media would portray anyone from the u.s. to take. i don t believe there ever was a deal there by the way. what was the impact there? that has to be concerning. i was commenting on the cables as no diplomatic leaked secret cables and never helpful in diplomacy. it s not helpful to the united states, pakistan or anywhere else in the world. i was in the white house, i saw this cable traffic, and if they