it doesn t give me much information. right. greta: then it starts out, has a quote those who cannot remember the pass are condemned to repeat it. then quotes from a mob scene, a paragraph. i thought it was black. even more interesting is this letter tonight from secretary of state hillary clinton to the committee on foreign relations, senator john kerry, and also in the house, and in that she said in the first hours and days after the terrorist attack they were having conversations about al-qaeda. where in the world is this video stuff coming up? i mean, there s still a lot of unanswered questions. i assume we ll get in the days and weeks to come with the hearings, right? i agree with your assessment. this unclassified version does bland. what::f caught my attention ae end of the document, is that it talks about the culpability of
to improve security at u.s. diplomatic missions. move called for by an independent panel set up to investigate the september 11 attack in benghazi, libya, that killed a u.s. ambassador and three other americans. catherine herridge has more. classified report arrived in the last minutes. they are waiting for the finding to be briefed tomorrow is classified hearings for the house and senate foreign relations committee. in addition to working on syria and north korea, aides to secretary clinton say she is drafting a letter in response to findings made available to lawmakers before the hearings tomorrow. unclassified version of the report could be released as early as tonight. once again, briefing, the state department tried to explain why clinton is not testifying this week about the benghazi terrorist attack, which killed four americans including her ambassador.
qaeda. what susan rice said, because the unclassified version was very different, she was she delivered that information that was not so she could pay the price? it s not for me to talk for republicans, but that s the argument. two points about that. first, it isn t that the intelligence community knew that was their best advice at that moment. and things always change and any other crisis that hadn t happened in the middle of an election. and, this is the key thing, chris, an election which the republicans were trying very hard to grab any foothold they can they could to take away the president s advantage on national security. ambassador rice was the percent out two weeks before an election, so they went after her for that reason. secretary clinton almost never does sunday shows and it was the u.n. general assembly that week.
the national intelligence estimate. on whether or not saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. the classified version said probably not. there were caveats. the unclassified version delivered to the american people and some senators, many senators, didn t bother to read the real one, be said something very different. emphasized what the white house apparently wanted. this is why people are fired up about this. this is the intelligence community absolutely hate to be in the position of having classified information and then having to produce unclassified talking points. unclassified version should it should not reveal sources and methods but should reflect the same reality. the american people ant can t be mislead. easy to say, hard to do sometimes. i get it. when you re not sure. things that are related to sources and methods which might affect the outcome. this is why past directors of national intelligence have made announcements there will be no more unclass
enough. i think we need to let him talk. charles, you weigh in. well, let s not talk about susan rice. let s take the president s own demand that we not pick on the little lady and we pick on him. all right. let s accept the challenge. that, and he said, after all, she was just my spokesman even though she knew nothing about this. all right, what he s asking us to say the president of the united states using a spokesman who knew nothing about the issue went on five television shows and gave one version of a story where the classified version clearly said this was a terror attack, and yet, the version that was heard on every network was, this was a riot that had gone out of control, this was nothing else and there was no evidence of anything else. that s pretty unequivocal. that means we have to lay at the feet of the president, willing to accept that challenge. clearly if petraeus is saying today, as he did, that there was al-qaeda, and a terrorist