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Mike Pompeo: No one recommended closing but you had two ambassadors that made several, several requests and here is basically what…

On the recordOctober 21, 2015
No one recommended closing but you had two ambassadors that made several, several requests and here is basically what happened to their requests. They were torn up.
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Mike Pompeo
Republican · Kansas

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Pompeo highlights the ignored requests for security from ambassadors prior to the Benghazi attack.

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