I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through
I want to thank the panelists. I think it was an interesting discussion, and look forward to having many more today. Thank you very much. And were live on capitol hill this thursday morning as this wednesday morning as the House Select Committee on benghazi will hear testimony on the 2012 attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Greg starr will appear before the committee again today. And in testimony last september for the same committee he encouraged law enforcements to give the state department extra funding to increase embassy security. Now, also testifying today we expect to hear from steve linick, the Inspector General at the state department. As this hearing gets under way and for the rest of the day were asking should more resources be put togethers Diplomatic Security. Go to facebook. Com or tweet us using the hash tag, cspan chat. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Again, we are awaiting the start of this House Select Committee on benghazi attack hearings to get under