i want to do this. the last time you and i talked, you had referred information to the bureau. am i right? what you had seen, you referred to the bureau. okay. i don t know if that was the last thing we talk ed about, bu i ll grant you one of the last. yes. it wasn t a trick question. one of the last things, you referred to the bureau what you saw, is that fair? yes. did you also defer to director clapper? not everything that was shared with the bureau is shared with director clapper. and why would that be? because on counterintelligence matters dealing with u.s. person information of very sensitive nature, the office of the dni and the dni does not have that type of operational responsibility. what we try to do is make sure there is as little exposure of that information as possible. i would keep general clapper
well, i want to do this. the last time you and i talked, you had referred information to the bureau. am i right? you had what you had seen you referred to the bureau. okay. i don t know if that was the last thing we talked about, out i ll grant you that, yes. one of. one of the last. it wasn t a trick question. one of the last things, you referred to the bureau what you saw. is that fair? yes. did you also refer to director clapper? not everything that was shared with the bureau was shared with director clapper. and why would that be? because on counterintelligence matters dealing with u.s. person information of a very sensitive nature, the office of the dna and the dni does not have that type of operational responsibility, and what we try to do is to make sure there is as little exposure of that information as possible. i would keep general clapper
he had the fax number of the state department. did e he have your home address? no, i don t think any ambassador has ever asked me for that. did he ever stop by your house? no, he did not. . mr. blumenthal had had those. this man who provided you so much information on libya had access in ways that senior diplomat had to you and your person. i had a picture up here. you didn t recognize who he was. were you briefed that he was present at the compound the night that ambassador stevens was killed? we re trying to track down the basis of your question, congressman. we have no information at this time. my question is a yes or no question. it s pretty simple. i don t have any information that i can provide to you yes or no. i know nothing about this it. the question is were you
arb worthy of equal treatment? there certainly are worthy of follow up by the department and i believe that they have been. there was an arb, please if you ll put up the poster, there was an ar be in 1998. 200 folks were killed. here s what the recommendation said. posture inadequate and this is from the most recent one. . do you agree with this? special security and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place. do you agree with that statement from the current arb? i accepted the recommendations. i don t think that s a relevant question. i think the question is i accepted their recommendations. obviously, their recommendations were based on their very thorough investigation and analysis. so clearly i endorsed the entire
figure that out. madame secretary, before we broke, there was a fair question why was i talking about mr. blumenthal s e-mails. that s a fair question. it s a fair question to ask why you were reading mr. blumenthal s e-mails. i think both are fair. i want to go to june of 2012, which is an interesting time period to look at. charlene lam sent an e-mail, which you may be familiar with. it s tab 56. i m not going to read it. she described benghazi as a soft target, attacks on americans, not staffed adequately. it was a haunting e-mail to read. it was three months to the day