bureau. on the overlay of the near east bureau is the diplomatic security bureau that allocates and decides what the threat atmosphere is in each. in this situation, what happened is that the state department regional security officer knew the threat level increased dramatically, but for some reason and i don t know if the report reveals publicly and i haven t seen these or have access to the annex, for some reason the security office and the managing bureau the state department cookie cuttered libya into another category rather than one that placed it on a higher threat level. there was a total break down between what the regional security officer was learning about and the bureaucrats in the state department who were saying what you are saying that doesn t fit into the definition to the increase in security. you made it clear that they