there was also a claim of responsibility by ansar alsharia. d when i talked to the egyptian prime minister i said at this was a claim of responsibility by ansar al sharah by a group that was affiliated or at least wanted to be affiliated with al qaeda. sometime after that, the next day, early the next morning after that on the 12th or 13th, they retracted their claim of responsibility. and i think if you look at what all of us were trying nonpartisan hard-hitting accountability review board, to and we were in a position, congressman, of trying to make sense of a lot of incoming information. and watched the way the intelligence community tried to make sense of it. >> madam secretary. there was not conflicting information the day of the attack because your press pressed 15eud if there's no connection between cairo and benghazi. it was clear. you're the ones who mudied it up. not the information. here's what i think is going on. let me show you one more slide. again, this is from your press person. she says, subject line reads this. romney stateme