Hillary Clinton

I think it was the State Department's efforts to try to fill some of those gaps.

I just---- Respectfully disagree with that, Congressman.

I don't see the relevance of any of those questions in terms of what actually happened in Benghazi.

This was not a facility that had the capacity to handle classified material, and there was, to the best of our information, Congressman, no classified material at the Benghazi facility.

It's good to remind ourselves and the rest of the world that this couldn't have happened without us.

I know nothing of this, Congressman.

We want to honor that by continuing to do what we can to support the Libyan people's transition.

There is, of course, information that we were obtaining about the increasingly dangerous environment in Libya.

I honestly don't understand this fixation, but I do know one thing about Sidney Blumenthal.

Well, Congressman, I was the Secretary of State. My job was to conduct the diplomacy.

That's my memory, yes.

There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.

I want to focus on this because I think it's a fair and important question.

Well, Congressman, that is only a political statement, which you well understand.

I did not talk to them until they had had an opportunity to be debriefed.

No one ever came to me and said, 'We should shut down our compound in Benghazi.'

There were a number of reasons for that. And I think it is important to remind the American people where we were at the time.

The president deserves the lion's share of the credit.

There was no partisan effort. People rose above politics.

We should have a much more orderly process for our budget.

I want to reiterate what I said to Congresswoman Sanchez.

I talked to the survivors when they came back to the United States.

Well, Congressman, of course, I made it abundantly clear that we had to do everything we could to protect our people.

I think it's important to point out there were many in the State Department who believed it was very much in America's interest and in furtherance of our values to protect the Libyan people, to join with our European allies and our Arab…

We were not making up the intelligence. We were trying to get it, make sense of it, and then to share it.