when our four fellow citizens were killed. that s on june 7th, 2012. also on june 7th of 2012, your deputy chief of staff is e-mailing ambassador stevens asking the ambassador to look at a memo sydney blumenthal sent you. in fact, mr. sullivan writes to the ambassador chris checking in with you on this report. any reactions? that s on exactly the same day that, i believe, our ambassador s papers were accepted in libya. it s a day after an i.e.d. attack on our compound and chris stevens is being asked to read and react to an e-mail by sydney blumenthal from your deputy chief of staff. this is after he s been turned
madam secretary, before we broke, there was a question asked that i thought was a fair question which is why was i talking about mr. blumenthal s e-mails. i do think that s a fair question. i think it s an equally fair question to ask why you were reading mr. blumenthal s e-mails. i think both are fair. so i want to go to june of 2012, which is an interesting time period to look at. charlene lamb was an employee of the state department and she sent an e-mail which you may be familiar with, tag 56, i won t read it. it s at tab 56 where she described benghazi as a soft target, attacks on americans, not staffed adequately. it s a very haunting e-mail to read. it was exactly three months to the day when our four fellow citizens were killed. that s on june 7th, 2012.
figure that out. madame secretary, before we broke there was a question asked that i thought was fair question which is why was i talking about mr. bloomingthal s e-mails. i think it s fair question. i think it s equally fair to ask why you were reading mr. bloomingthal 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 lamb was an employee of the state department. it s tab 56. i m not going to read it. it s tab 56 where she described benghazi as a soft target. attacked on americans not staffed adequately. it s a very haunting e-mail to ee months to the day when our four fellow citizens were killed. that s on june 7th, 2012.
should have been on but wasn t. hans nichols has stayed on this story from the pentagon. what is the air force staying about the information that they had on the shooter that somehow didn t make it into this database that should have stopped him from getting a gun? they had something simple, that is the general court martial order where he pleaded guilty to two assault counts. one of both from clearly domestic violence and that should have been transmitted to this national database run by the fbi. i ve also got to tell you on the breaking news that we have out of our affiliate out of houston, a pentagon official is confirming the broad outlines of this story. let me recap the story. that is that the individual, mr. kelley was in a mental health institution off of the base. he escaped from that base. and on june 7th, 2012, he was picked up when he was behaving oddly. and there is a police report on this. he then goes into pretrial