the senator from Kentucky has relevant questions about to the larger question that is asked

in the department reviewed it was briefed on the cables that were sent from the post in June and are two thousand and one hundred security

I appreciate there is one part of it and I am I don't think we're concerned but I'm a bit puzzled by and that's it places a

Libya on the repeated requests from the team on the ground for security and of the inability so sorry I senator what I would say is there was certainly a general awareness of

country that we were involved in and and some I'm curious because an and page five of the reporting unclassified version it talks about the I'm

we're they made aware of the more than she security incidents that occurred in Benghazi in thirteen leading up to the when

the data that is true come out that the that the focus on the ground or say you were really worried about what I'm here with security we've made a number of requests there

were certain meetings that took place at senior levels levels with regard to the situation of Libya and general and particularly with regard to the concern about

a real concern about the difficulty that the Libyan inner government was having and develop capable

october the first is that senators position i thank the senator from illinois for that question and

her on that long flight home I certainly had a lot of time to think about sharper questions that I could have as sharper

the very weak security capabilities of the Libyan government at that and so certainly that was the subject of fairly consistent concern as

there were certainly memos that came up to the seventh floor that talked about the deteriorating security situation in his trailer and

the tune of basically saying we've been to Libya and by the way they're two things at the station is concerned about security in general and

that means the insurance companies have a different risk fool than the ones they bargained for but

the Libyan inner inner interim government at that time you've we offered a number of programs to help them build those institutions which remained one of the greatest weaknesses part