I agree with you completely, Congresswoman.
I think it was very useful.
It's very challenging to get military assets into countries that don't want them there.
there was never a recommendation from any intelligence official in our government, from any official in the State Department, or from any ot...
We were aware because we were really counting on Chris to guide us.
There was no actionable intelligence on September 11 or even before that date about any kind of planned attack.
I took it very seriously. And that's why I embraced all of their recommendations and created a new position within the Diplomatic Security B...
What the United States did, as I've said, was use our unique capacities.
It was always going to be a constant risk, and we knew that.
this was, we all knew, a risky undertaking.
There is, of course, information that we were obtaining about the increasingly dangerous environment in Libya.