senator you will have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex. i will see what information is available. you are saying you don t know. i do not know. colonel is there the possibility that the reason that we didn t respond militarily, the reason that we had such a low profile in benghazi was because there was something going on that washington, d.c. didn t want the public to know about. in. well, craig, you know, this is a lot of things that the government does not necessarily want the public to know about. and that is understandable because if you tell the public the bad guys know. the problem here is that the bad guys already know. the biggest part of what was going on out there was 60 personnel, some contractors, some of them government personnel who worked for another government agency, not the state department. we though that there was contacts being made with radical elements inside libya some of it we believe to is collect up weapons that we did not wa
are in the important new book, rums fell rules, the former secretary of defense quotes an air force general by the name of lee but lore who said warning time not used is wasted time. it is like runway behind a pilot. in referencing general butler s comments did we waste time in libya by not heeding the various warnings before the attack on our ambassador and the others mr. secretary? it would seem to be the case. if you think about the the fact that the warnings to the british people in benghazi were such about the al-qaeda opinion related units that they pulled their people out and the warnings to our people were such that they asked for additional security. and unfortunately didn t get it. geraldo: so is that the worst of it? is the worse of the benghazi situation that we did not heed the warning, that we did not enhance security or, indeed,
senator you will have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex. i will see what information is available. you are saying you don t know. i do not know. colonel is there the possibility that the reason that we didn t respond militarily, the reason that we had such a low profile in benghazi was because there was something going on that washington, d.c. didn t want the public to know about. in. well, craig, you know, this is a lot of things that the government does not necessarily want the public to know about. and that is understandable because if you tell the public the bad guys know. the problem here is that the bad guys already know. the biggest part of what was going on out there was 60 personnel, some contractors, some of them government personnel who worked for another government agency, not the state department. we though that there was contacts being made with radical elements inside libya some of it we believe to is collect up weapons that we did not wa
ailer with tow gonzalez maintained he was during the bush administration? we he don t know yet, geraldo. we know we are in the middle of congressional hearings. lot more has to be said. but the american people hold elected officials to a very high standard as they should. and whether anything is a a lie or not you have to have the utmost candor. just like hillary clinton. you know, with this muslim video blaming the deaths of four americans including our ambassador that is absolutely ridiculous that they would do that. and she needs to be held accountable in my opinion. geraldo: coming up, we is the whistle blowers attorneys. they maintain that that is a clear coverup in their opinion or their clients clients opin, gregory hicks and the other gentleman whose name escapes me right now. they say her fingerprints were all over in terms of sending
and the irs has a major role in both of those. so it is understandable that there would be a fair number of meetings. but that s the number you ve cited is quite a bit. now, generally speaking, during your tenure, were the meetings typically held inside the white house, or are they more typically held at irs headquarters or some building in the treasury? very limited meetings, geraldo, at the white house and the complex. i would go over and beg for money periodically, and that would be at omb. that s not in the white house itself. what clearly happened here was there were a large number of meetings that would appear on the affordable care act, and it just it should have been that question should have been handled more crisply and in a more forthcoming manner. do you worry that its involvement in the enforcement of obama care, given the fact that that is so highly charged and political, will rub off on the irs and make it a more political agency even absent the