Togeth from new mexico and we thought we would come down together and talk about our former colleagues have passed away recently. He was born to italian immigrants in 1932. He was heres a brochure sun, wn attended catholic school, graduated from our own university of new mexico, on the University Team he taught high school mathematics, though they practice and got his start in politics on the city commissiond and was selected in 1973 and became the longestserving senator. He was a husband, father and bur grandfather, he married nancy berg out of law school. She was a good friend of ours and we spent an hour with her iw albuquerque a little of her week ago and as one would expect as a mother and grandmother Pete Domenici was a statesman that worked across party lines to find pragmatic solutions. Nator o one of the strongest fighters our state will ever know. We belong to different Political Parties and we didnt always agree on things but i always put appreciated that he cared deeply abo
So theres were trying to have more preexisting arrangements like that, and that goes to your question. If there are assets in the region, how do we plan for contingencies so that they can be immediately triggered and try to respond. I obviously spoke to the white house, i spoke to general petraeus, i spoke to lots of other people that evening trying to get whatever help we could get. We did get a surveillance plane above the location, but it took some time to get there. It had to be diverted it was an unarmed drone. Correct . Yes. It was unarmed uav. So we asked for everything we could get and everybody immediately tried to provide it but i think now theres more awareness that maybe we should be doing these scenarios ahead of time to try to figure out what could be done without having to reinvent it every time. Thank you. Im out of time, mr. Chairman. Thank the gentle lady from illinois. Chair would now recognize the gentle woman from indiana. Thank you, madam secretary. Im going to fo
Ambassador stevens after we dont know the answer. Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in this may . Yes or no, please. Yes, i believe i did. And when was that . I dont recall. And i want to clarify for the record that this document is about all of libya, not just benghazi. I dont want anybody 77 are about benghazi. Congresswoman, look. I appreciate it and i really do the passion and the intense interof your feelings about this. We have diplomatic facilities in war zones. We have ambassadors that we send to places that have been bombed and attacked all the time. And youre their boss. Youre right, i am. Youre their leader. Is that correct . Are there ever situations where you call them, where you bring them in, where you are personally caring and concerned and are letting them know that . Are there situations where you recall id like to know what the conversation was with ambassador stevens and what month it was with ambassador steve stevens. Because there are no cal
And yes, the Intelligence Community assessment served as the basis for what ambassador rice said when she appeared on the sunday show. And on september 18th, when the video footage arrived from the security cameras the deputy cia director has testified it was not until september 18th, when the cia received the libyan governments assessment of video footage that showed the front of the facility with no sign of protesters that it became clear we needed to revisit our analysis. And then, after they looked at the video footage and fbi reporting from interviews of personnel on the ground in benghazi during the attacks the cia changed its assessment. And that was explained thoroughly in the bipartisan report issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence which did a very thorough job, congressman. Gentleman yields back, well take a quick break for ten minutes, ten seconds i just wanted to point out that the Ranking Member is actually incorrect. The august 17th memo that i ref