watergate commission. there was resistance to the iran-contra. the party in power never likes to have a select committee but i m hopeful that the american people will demand it and, i am guardedly optimistic that they will achieve that goal. the families deserve it among other people. do you want to say anything? yeah. could i just . [inaudible]. no, it s, it s a military presence? why weren t there forces there ready to respond on september 11th after there have been numerous, series of information that there is very likely to be an attack, especially on september 11th? what were the forces deployed in the region? there s, all three branches of government have a very significant role, three branches, defense,
relations committee would want to hear from secretary clinton and all those who are responsible for consulate security. the problem is that the three committees will not be able to hear what the other groups are saying. i d like to ask general petraeus some questions. and i m sure there are people on the intel committee would like to hear what the department of defense has to say about their handling of the benghazi attack. and when it comes to the state department all of us would like to know why were there so many, so many requests for additional security denied? in the august 15th cable back to washington where chris stevens is telling secretary clinton, we ve identified 10 al qaeda militia groups in benghazi. two of the 10 we now suspect were involved in the attack and in the final paragraph or close to the final paragraph the cable says, if there is a coordinated attack against the consulate, we can not defend it. so four americans are dead. the first ambassador is killed in 33 ye
committee because three important committees of this body have very clear jurisdiction over this. certainly the senate foreign relations committee. certainly if you look at the senate armed services committee and the intelligence committee, all of the questions that senator mccain outlined before, after and during, they intersect in some way in those three committees and if we don t bring this investigation together, the american people are going to still continue to ask these very important questions and we owe it to the american people to make sure that we understand exactly what happened, what went wrong. why couldn t the greatest military in the world respond when an attack occurred almost over a seven-hour period? and why were there, at a minimum, misstatements made and certainly misimpressions given to the american people about the nature of this attack in the immediate
a relatively foreseeable emergency? why did senior administration officials seek to blame a spontaneous demonstration for the attack in benghazi when it was later acknowledged that no protest even occurred in benghazi and that the station chief in tripoli was apparently reporting back in the first 24 hours that it was a terrorist attack? why did president obama insist that he label the events in benghazi as an act of terrorism on september 12th, and then emphasize that in his second debate with governor romney? and we now know in an interview with 60 minutes on the sail day he explicitly refused to characterize the attack this way? and he then spent nearly two weeks putting the emphasis on a spontaneous protest to a hateful video including in his address to the united
the available intelligence. and now whether former cia director david petraeus s statements to congress about the attack were in any way impacted by the knowledge he was the focus of an fbi investigation for his affair with biographer paula broadwell. the party in power never likes to have a select committee. but i m hopeful that the american people will demand it and, i am guardedly optimistic that they will achieve that goal. the families deserve it among other people. reporter: fox news was first to report on september 13th that the fbi and the national counter air trism center the nation s hub for threat analysis briefed lawmakers on telephone intercepts the evidence supported al qaeda or al qaeda affiliated attack. there was no mention of the anti-islam video or emfasis on a demonstration outside the consulate. following day on september 14th, cia director petraeus told lawmakers that the