in the talking points about what happened in benghazi. cnn s barbara starr is reporting tonight that you as an administration are readying yourselves for more action to go into libya and track down the people responsible. can you comment on that? that s part of the investigation led by the fbi that the president ordered immediately in the aftermath of the attacks in benghazi. and i think that whatever activity is being undertaken, and i can t confirm something like that, but whatever activity is being undertaken, i think represents and elucidates the fact the president has made sure we are continuing to focus on finding those responsible, as well as continuing to focus on upgrading and making changes to our security around our embassy facilities and around our personnel. let s turn to the third scandal of the week. let me ask you first of all, did you ever think you would have to deal with three scandals like this at the same time? i dismiss the premise, the idea these were sca
about warnings, i think you saw in the reports today that the cia also believed that those matters should not be included in the talking points about what happened in benghazi. cnn s barbara starr is reporting tonight that you as an administration are readying yourselves for more action to go into libya and track down the people responsible. can you comment on that? that s part of the investigation led by the fbi that the president ordered immediately in the aftermath of the attacks in benghazi. and i think that whatever activity is being undertaken, and i can t confirm something like that, but whatever activity is being undertaken, i think represents and elucidates the fact the president has made sure we are continuing to focus on finding those responsible, as well as continuing to focus on upgrading and making changes to our security around our embassy facilities and around our personnel. let s turn to the third scandal of the week. let me ask you first of all, did you ever thi
happened in benghazi. cnn s barbara starr is reporting tonight that you as an administration are readying yourselves for more action to go into libya and track down the people responsible. can you comment on that? that s part of the investigation led by the fbi that the president ordered immediately in the aftermath of the attacks in benghazi. and i think that whatever activity is being undertaken, and i can t confirm something like that, but whatever activity is being undertaken, i think represents and elucidates the fact the president has made sure we are continuing to focus on finding those responsible, as well as continuing to focus on upgrading and making changes to our security around our embassy facilities and around our personnel. let s turn to the third scandal of the week. let me ask you first of all, did you ever think you would have to deal with three scandals like this at the same time? i dismiss the premise, the idea these were scandals. one is a total concoction
security secretary is saying that biden link the libya attack to a protest over that video erroneously because the intelligence community was providing that information. general michael hayden who led the c.i.a. and michael chertoff, both officials in bush administration they are, quote, disappointed by the vice president s remark. it is clear that any failure was not on the part of the intelligence community but on the part of the white house decision makers who should have listened to and acted on available intelligence. vice president also said the white house has not been alerted to any additional requests for security in libya. white house clarified that security decisions for embassy facilities are made by the state department. they countered the idea that the administration should have done more to prevent the attack. no actionable intelligence
security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air and protesters were unable to break in to the main embassy compound. according to a senior administration official, there has been good cooperation from the yemen government which is condemned the attacks and is working with the united states to maintain order and protect embassy facilities and the people inside. meanwhile, the u.s. has dispatched two war ships, armed with cruise missiles, closer to the libyan coast. the defense department says this is just a precautionary step. but 50 u.s. marines have also been dispatched to help guard the embassy in tripoli but there s still more questions than answers on what happened in benghazi and who was behind the attack that left four americans dead, including 52-year-old ambassador chris stevens, widely regarded as one of the most popular and successful american envoys in the region. and of course, sean smith, a father of two and foreign service information management officer. l