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Telstra: After serving on the telecom major s board for 15 years, the company said Mullen will be succeeded as chairman by current director Craig Dunn. Mullen served as chairman for the past seven years. ....
Third, both ambassador pickering and admiral mullen specifically highlighted the reason why this is complicated because under federal statute and regulations, unsatisfactory leadership is not grounds for finding of a breach of duty. the arb did not find these four individuals breached their duty. so i have submitted legislation to this committee, to the congress, to fix this problem so future arbs will not face this situation. but here s the problem. the review board has all these recommendations but there is one thing they failed to address and i think you failed to address and sets us up for another tragedy like this. they should have never been sent in there without a military guard. this should have been an embassy like in baghdad, in a war zone, and it should have been under military guard. significant military guard, defense department command. i don t think the state department is capable of being in the war zone, protecting these people. i still don t think that i think anoth ....
Government and the libyan government. so i saw first-hand what ambassador pickering and former chairman mullen called, timely and exceptional coordination. no delays in decision-making. no denials of support from washington or from our military. reporter: she described in great detail what she was doing the day of the attack. she said she was at the state department today, closely monitoring the situation in cairo, egypt, where protesters were scaling the fence of the u.s. embassy there. in that same time frame of other protests against u.s. installations across the area. she said she had a call to national security advisor tom donilon at the white house. later that evening she spoke with the president of the united states. she said there was no decision to withold the support to besieged staffers. here she is again. i do feel responsible. i feel responsible for the nearly 70,000 people who work for the state department. i take it very seriously. but the specific security ....
Requests pertaining to benghazi, you know, were handled by the security professionals in the department. i didn t see those requests. they didn t come to me. i didn t approve them. i didn t deny them. that s obviously one of the findings that ambassador pickering and admiral mullen made at that, you know, these requests don t ordinarily come to the secretary of state. reporter: asked if it was she who made the decision to send u.n. ambassador susan rice onto the sunday talk shows in the aftermath of the attacks. she said she did not make that decision, heather. heather: doug, we watched the testimony today. secretary clinton, she was, you could say, quite testy at times. what s is the response to that. reporter: testy, emotional. at one point she got a little tearful talking about making calls to the family. at one point she got testy with senator ron johnson in wisconsin, why didn t she phone survivors to ask what the origin of this protest was. here is our response. with all du ....
times even funny. we re going to play part of it throughout the hour. admiral william mccraven may not be a household name, but as you re about to see, he s a genuine u.s. hero. we always think of, in recent years, of course, at least in the past year, with admiral m mccraven, as the orchestrater, the architect of the raid that killed osama bin laden. and you know, we ve all read a lot about it. i know peter bergen is here, he s written a whole book about it, an excellent book about it. but this is the guy who s sitting right here, who had the guts to tell the commander in chief, we should do it, let s do it, and when you ordered that raid, and when you said, you think you didn t even know for sure that bin laden was in a abbottabad in that compound, did you? let me make one thing clear, i didn t order the raid. but he told the president of the united states that he thought he could do it. and this is not a small point. the fact of the matter is, it was the pres ....