position on whether the various lawmakers who have been seeking access to the benghazi survivors should, in fact, have that access? as i said on your air the other day, the white house is certainly not preventing anybody from having access to any of the survivors of the benghazi attack. i think it s worth noting that government employees, in this case some of them in highly-sensitive positions, have responsibilities that existed before and exist after an attack like that. but investigation is ongoing. we don t talk about specifics in terms of the president s visits to walter reed. i can or elsewhere? i don t have anything for you on that. i don t know the answer to that question. jenna: just to clarify, james rosen asked jay carney has the president met with any of the survivors, and that s what he was responding to in the second part of that sound bite. mike baker is with us, president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm. so, mike, you re the one to ask
new signs of a communication break down in the obama administration during the terror attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. u.s. intel sources telling fox news that senior counterterrorism officials felt shutout of potentially lifesaving decisions that were being made on the ground. jt mcfarland secretary of defense reagan years, and a white house aide, mike baker, president of diligence llc, a global intelligence and security firm. kt to you first. the documents that jennifer griffin reported on live last night you have seen them as well. what do we need to understand about what is in them to help us understand about the decision-making that was happening? there are a lot of documents, but the big picture of this. the big take away is that the united states government decided to entrust it s security of the u.s. personnel, the ambassador and others to the libyan
the cig significance of all thee events, mike baker, president of diligence llc. good morning to you. thank you. bill: what does it mean? well, i mean, it s, obviously, extremely good news once it s confirmed. but what it means, also, is that we have to be very careful because we re now moving into probably the most important part. we always knew that gadhafi was finished, it was just a matter of what was the ending scenario. but now we have to hope that the national transitional council and sort of the de facto prime minister will be strong enough, charismatic enough, powerful enough and efficient enough to move immediately into the next phase of this which is to create stability, prevent revenge or retribution attacks against the former gadhafi supporters and move forward with some real changes to the government. so i think, you know, it s a time for celebration in a sense. i mean, you know, in the way that gadhafi has been treating
about we thank for is that? mike baker, president of diligence l.l.c., an intelligence and security. thank you for joining us. two best decisions since 9/11, what are they? two best decision? probably going straight into afghanistan right after 9/11 to route out al-qaeda and remove their permanent bases from afghanistan and prevent them from having the opportunity to do long term planning, training, and preparation for attacks. then the other, probably best decision, is frankly obama s decision to significantly ramp up the drone campaign that had been started under the bush administration. bill: that s remarkable. and it s proven hugely successful. two worst decisions, mike? two worst decisions would be probably the creation of director of national intelligence, in an effort in an important effort to try to consolidate our abilities to gather intelligence and share it across the bureaucracies but the dni layered on