attack was akin to flashmob. they were so disappointed that the attacks were a demonstration spun out of control in response to this video which was in conflict with the raw intelligence reporting and the statements of the fbi and ntct. the documents that we see that the cia had, the information they had, prior to general petraeus coming in, that s impossible to believe that he thought he was giving us honest testimony. reporter: through his personal contacts the general has insisted that his resignation was not in any way connected to the benghazi scandal, jenna. jenna: more on this when we get it. catherine, thank you. reporter: you re welcome. rick: we ve been talking a lot about the looming fiscal cliff. that what happens if there is no deal and there is a chance that could happen. the wall street journal s david wessel joins us coming up. we could go over the cliff. taxes would lurch upwards, spending would be cut blindly. it is not as unlikely as it
can t defend this place if we re attacked by al qaeda? by the way there are 10 groups here? did she know the place was bombed in june? did the american president, barack obama, know that we had been attacked device? how could she say five days later definitely there is no evidence of a coordinated al qaeda attack when there is a ream of evidence. when it comes to condoleezza rice, there we were not only country that thought we were get he was getting weapons of mass destruction the. this is the role she played, and story coming out of the administration and she is the point person is so disconnected to reality that i don t trust her. the reason i don t trust her because i think she knew better and if she didn t know better she should not be the voice of america. somebody has to pay a price around this place. back to the bush administration, when we went to iraq and we came saying
are murdered as a result of a terrorist attack there s nothing more american or more important responsibility than members of congress have to get to the bottom of it and frankly right now where we are we have more questions than answers and the answers that we have gotten because it has been given in a disjointed fashion from the administration, answers we have, have raised more questions. they have been inconsistent with each other and at times, they have provided misimpressions and misstatements to the american people about the nature of the attacks that occurred that resulted in the deaths of our four brave americans and so if anying cries out for the establishment of a select committee we re going to continue on this path of all of you and the american people receiving disjointed information if we do not establish this select
nations on september 25th? why did our ambassador to the united nations in interviews five days after the attack also try to blame on the hateful video when it was clear from the earliest hours of the attack that it was sophisticated, that it was a sophisticated offensive? that no protest ever occurred outside of our consulate in benghazi and if ambassador rice was relying on intelligence assessments as she insists, why were those assessments so dramaticly at odds with the earliest reports from our people on the ground? most importantly, why does the administration still appear to have no policy to deal with the fact that al qaeda and affiliated groups have established sanctuaries in eastern libya, a country that we helped to liberate and which elected pro-american government that is eager for our assistance? this is perhaps the most troubling question of all.
sent from our embassy in libya back to the state department on august 16th, stating there were numerous armed groups in benghazi that posed a threat to the security of the consulate in benghazi and that that consulate could not survive a sustained attack like the one that eventually occurd a month later at the hands of one of these militia groups? what action if any did secretary clinton take in response to these repeated warnings from her people on the ground including ambassador stevens in his final official message before his death? why were repeated requests for security in libya apparently turned down by officials in the state department? on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in american history, and after multiple attacks this year on our consulate in benghazi and other western interests there, why were u.s. armed forces in the region not ready and positioned to respond rapidly to what was