happen in iraq and other places throughout the world. thank you. i want to also echo the comments of my colleagues, senator mccain, senator graham. i appreciated the work done on the accountability review board report. there obviously was substantial work done on this and we need to work on a bipartisan basis to implement the recommendations, many of them, on this report, as soon as we can to make sure that our facilities around the world are secure but let s make sure that we remember some of the most top line findings of this. there was a systemic failure of leadership within the state department that really contributed to what happened on september 11th. that the security at the consulate was grossly inadequate, and that this report thoroughly discredits the administration s narrative almost two weeks the attacks on the consulate in saying that this was the