brigade. an islamic militia group. more than a mile away is what is called the an ex. now known to be a cia facility. there s more security there. based in tripoli but moving around the country is a department of defense sight security team with special forces capability. lieutenant colonel andrew wood takes charge of the sst on february 12th, 2012. the spring of 2012, there was an uptick of terror attacks in libya. that s true. they seemed to be targeting more toward westerners. despite an average of two security incidents every three days, wood and his team are slated to leave libya by summer s end. march 28th, 2012. americans in libya send a cable to secretary of state clinton requesting more security. april 6th. a bomb is tossed over the wall of the benghazi compound. no one is hurt. april 19th, a return cable signed by clinton says security
it s not deployment of going toward benghazi. why did it take almost 4 1/2 hours to start the clock to prepare to deploy? we had people being killed, ambassador missing. we didn t know when the attack was going to end, and the american military did not respond. so what about the house republicans own interim progress report that concluded that department of defense officials and military personnel reacted quickly to the attacks in benghazi? i asked chaffetz about that. as i read the house joint committee report, it says there were no helicopters, armed drones, nothing could save the lives of benghazi. am i reading that correctly? the report is an interim report. the discussion about what the military did and did not do is not yet complete. 3:00 a.m., tripoli, hicks gets a call from the prime