in all of the materials that have been produced to us today, i have not yet found the document that was prepared at your request for post gadhafi. planning. did you have such a document e prepared prior to the time that gadhafi was removed? we had a number of documents. we had a long list of areas we were working on and the process for following up on those areas. i don t know if it was one document or a dozen documents, but we had had a lot of work ongoing. both at the state document and usa usaid. did you ask for those documents? did you have a team working on that? or if it was just something that was happening of its own acord? we had a number of people working on that. i sent both of my deputies out to libya to meet with the libyans. we can do all the planning we want in washington, but it s very important to ask the lib u yans both what they want and what they expect from us. and so we had an ongoing
diplomatic security officers and then by the cia reenforcements that arrived to find his body, or find him hopefully were unsuccessful. and they had to withdraw because of the continuing attack back to the cia annex before we knew what had happened to the ambassador. we were desperate and we were trying to call everybody we knew in benghazi and libya and get additional help. what appears to have happened at some point later is that libyans found ambassador stevens. they carried him to the hospital in benghazi. and libyan doctors labored nearly two hours to try to resuscitate him.
into the record was from the fall of 2011. and there was quite a discussion going on between officials in the state department, in the intelligence community, in both washington and lub ya about the path forward. the transitional national council had been based in benghazi. and there was a dispute even within the libyans themselves as to whether they would split the government, whether the government would be locate d predominantly, but not exclusively in tripoli or as some were hoping predom lantly in benghazi. so this was all a very live subject that was being debated. both in libya and with respect to what our response would be in washington. so we at chris stevens strong
you re familiar with that clip? we came, we saw, he died. is that the clinton doctrine? no, that was an expression of relief that the military mission undertaken by nato and other partners had achieved its end. and therefore, no more american, european or arab lives would be at stake in trying to prevent gadhafi from wreaking havoc on libyans. i want to direct your attention and maybe direct the group s attention to something that hasn t really been discussed. there s been this explicit criticism of republicans being partisans today. i want to direct your attention to what s going on with you and
out there. with issues with contracting and host nation requirements. yes, we do. the host nation gets to call a lot of the shots. under the con vnventioconventio nation is responsible for providing security for diplomatic posts. but when a host nation is unwilling to do so, as we do have in some places where we are present, or unable to do so, because i do think with the libyans, there was a desire to be helpful, but not a capacity to produce what we needed. we have to really work hard to get the kind of support that is required. in some cases, we have been able to work out arrangements with the host countries. some we have just defied them and tried to be quiet about what