incidents at your facility, state department facility in benghazi, libya. it shows increase in security being non-existence. i assume answer is the same we have increasing security incidents but no corresponding increase in the amount of security? congressman, i have to respectfully disagree. many security requests were fulfilled. we would be happy to get you that information for the record. so i can t really tell what it is you re putting on that poster but i know that a number of security requests were fulfilled for benghazi. yes, ma am. what it shows the number of direct diplomatic security agents at beginning of 2012 and those there the day of murder of four americans is no different. congressman, the decision as i recall was that the post, namely embassy tripoli, on behalf of benghazi requested five diplomatic security personnel and they did have that on the day that chris stevens
this began with the chairman s statement. the chairman said, at the outset of hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don t know the truth. that this is the first investigation we ve ever had. the reality is we have had eight investigations. we ve gone through this endlessly, and, if you just look at the documentary record, we have the arb report. we have the report of the armed services committee led by republican buck mckeon, which debunked the stand-down order allegations. we have the report of the committee on government reform. we have the report of the senate homeland security committee. we have the report of the house
and asked for help, i directed our folks to ensure that we were doing everything possible. and that is of course what they were doing that night. is that correct? that is, and also the defense department was doing everything it could possibly do. we had a plane bringing additional security from tripoli to benghazi. there was an enormous amount of activity. everyone. it was all hands on deck. everyone jumped in to try to figure out what they could do. the attack on the compound was very fast. would it be safe to say you were fully engaged that evening? that is certainly safe to say. thank you. gentlelady from california yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio, mr. jordan. you gave a long answer to miss sanchez about what you heard that nice. but nowhere in there did you mention a video. you didn t mention a video
that we were trying to make sense of. the situation was very fluid. it was fast-moving. there was also a claim of responsibility by ansar al sharia and when i talked to the egyptian prime minister, i said that this was a claim of responsibility by ansar al sharia, by a group that was affiliated or at least wanted to be affiliated with al qaeda. sometime after that, the next day, early the next morning after that, on the 12th or 13th, they retracted their claim of responsibility. i think if you look at what all of us were trying to do, and we were in a position, congressman, of trying to make sense of a lot of incoming information and watch the way the intelligence community tried to make sense of it. so all i can say is nobody there was not conflicting information the day of the attack because your press secretary said if pressed, there s no connection between cairo and benghazi. it was clear. you are the ones who muddied it
further attacks and in fact, during the course of that week, we had many attacks that were all about the video. we had people breaching the walls of our embassies in tunis and khartoum, people thankfully not americans dying at protests but that s what was going on, congressman. i appreciate most of those attacks were after the attack on the facility in benghazi. you mentioned cairo. interesting what else miss newland said that day. she said if pressed, by the press, if there s a connection between cairo and benghazi, she said this. there s no connection between the two. so here s what troubles me. your experts knew the truth. your spokesperson knew the truth. greg hicks knew the truth. but what troubles me more is i think you knew the truth. i want to show you a few things here. you are looking at an e-mail you sent to your family. here s what you said. at 11:00 that night,