your team. many of whom are here today with you. so jake sullivan, one of your closer advisers, put together the tick tok on libya memo and that was a memo that was all about you. it put together 22 different accomplishments and you were the central figure in all 22 of those accomplishments. i ve got to tell you, it s really well put together. he uses language of action and initiative and leadership. let me give you a couple of these. hrc, that s you, obviously, announces, directs, appoints special envoy, secures russian ob stengs, secures command and control, travels to berlin, rome, istanbul. he s laying the foundation that the libya policy is your policy. essentially he s making the argument that it s your baby and you are clearly familiar with this time line because in e-mail exchanges with your senior
cheryl mills, to call denis mcdonough, now the president s chief of staff to put together a fullcourt press i ll wait while you read the note. thank you. because i don t here s my question. i m waiting for a question. go ahead. you finish reading and i ll start talking. one thing i wanted well i don t have what you re reading here in font of me. tab 12. that has now been handed to me and it s clear i wanted to make sure christ stevens, jeff feldman, dod, got credit. i wrote that. you ve did not quote that. let me is about state of mind. you were thinking about credit for you. isn t that right? no that s not. wanted those who were part of this policy to be given recognition, and i also wanted to be sure that we had the president and the white house coordinating with us. it was a very gutsy decision for
benghazi on the night of the attacks. during the select committee s first hearing, which was more than a year ago shs the chairman posed the following question. we know the risk of being in benghazi. tell us what our policy was in libya that overcame those risks. in other words, why were we there? the accountability review board already answered that question. benghazi was the largest city and historical power center. although the transitional national council declared that tripoli would continue to view the capital of post gadhafi libya, many players remained based in benghazi. it went on to explain that ambassador stevens advocate d fr a presence in benghazi and his status as the leading u.s. government advocate on libya policy and his expertise on benghazi in particular caused washington to give unusual deference to his judgments. secretary clinton, do you agree, was ambassador stevens a leading
happy about wasn t that you were the focal point, is that it didn t include enough you said, this is your e-mail what bothers me is that the policy office prepared the timeline, but it doesn t include much of what i did. another time you said: the x is totally inadequate, which port bothers me about our record-keeping. i was in paris in 3-19 when the attack started. it s not on the timeline. what else in missing? go over as soon as possible. now, this timeline was put together, according to your senior staff, explicitly for an article that came out in the washington post entitled clinton s key role in libya conflict. and in fact according to your staff, quote, the comprehensive ticktock memo jake put together was done in large part for the warwick piece, and according to
cries advisers you told us about, put together the ticktock on libya enemy ma that was all about you. put together 22 different accomplishments and you were the central figure in all 22 of those accomplishments. and i ve got to tell you, it s really pel put together. he uses language of action and initiative. hrc you announces direct, appoints special envoy, travels to g8, secures russian abstention. secures transition of command and control, travels to berlin, rome, abu dhabi, he is basically laying the foundation that the libya policy is your policy, essentially he is making the argument that it s your baby and you were clearly familiar with this timeline because in e-mail exchanges with your senior staff, you were not happy about it, and the part you weren t