staff taking the night of september 11th and into september the 12th? well, first, you re right, mr. chairman, that there was an ongoing discussion. when chris first landed in benghazi he stayed in a hotel along with other representatives of different nations. there were attacks in the vicinity including in the parking lot of the hotel. the decision was made to move. the compound was selected as being a much better location in terms of security than the alternatives. but there was an ongoing discussion between chris and others in the embassy in tripoli, those going in and out of benghazi, about how best to situate our post there. i did see some overnight reporting about a document, i m not sure what it is but i would observe that there were a lot of ongoing efforts because it was
statement, but what actions were you and your staff taking the night of september 11th and into september the 12th? well, first, you re right, mr. chairman, that there was an ongoing discussion. when chris first landed in benghazi, he stayed in a hotel lang with other representatives of different nations. there were attacks in the vicinity, including in the parking lot of the hotel. the decision was made to move. the compound was selected as being a much better location in terms of security than the alternatives, but there was an ongoing discussion between chris and others in the embassy in tripoli, those going in and out of benghazi, about how best to situate our post there. i did see some overnight reporting about a document i m not sure what it is, but i would observe that there were a lot of
happened, you should have at least interviewed the people who were there, instead of saying we couldn t talk to them because an fbi investigation was going on. and by the way, as i said at the time, i just happen to be on one of those talk shows, people don t bring rpgs and mortars to spontaneous demonstrations. that s a fundamental. the president continued to say days afterwards, september the 12th he made a reference to act of terror, september 12th on 60 minutes too early to know. september 20th, we re still doing an investigation. september 24th on the view we re still doing an investigation. the president of the united states as late as september 24th, two weeks later did not acknowledge that this was an act of terror conducted by people who were at least somehow connected to the al qaeda.
morning. i look forward to 2:00 as the ranking house foreign affairs committee to have her come to the house and requequestion her well. it has been four months since the attack when we lost four americans, a lot of questions remain behind the motives for the attack itself and john mccain was also critical of the secretary in his questioning. take a listen. people don t bring rbgs and mortars to spontaneous demonstrations, that s a fundamental. and of course the president continued to say days afterwards, september the 12th, maeld a reference to act of terror. september 12th, too early to know. september 20th on univision, still doing an investigation. september 24th on the view , still doing an investigation. the president of the united states as late as september
military capabilities there in the region over a seven-hour fight to afterwards obviously the president saying in a second debate that he had said that if was a terrorist attack on september the 12th when, in fact, he didn t. in fact, we now know that 60 minutes sup pressed the program sup pressed the interview that he had where he stated we don t know who is responsible for this attack. even the 25th of september before the united nations, the president talked about hateful videos. now, he had to have had that information two weeks after the attacks. i certainly think there s a lot of explaining to be done, a lot of questions by the administration, and i hope we get to the bottom of it. let me turn to another pressing problem. the prime minister of turkey called israel a terrorist state. that s on the heels of president morsi saying or condemning israel for what s going on in the middle east right now