the heroes were the navy seals, former navy seals, ty woods, glenn doherty, who put their lives on the line to save their fellow americans that night. those who acted with cowardice did so far away from benghazi in washington d.c. failing to live up, in my opinion, to their legal, moral and also political responsibilities. the two people in washington who i believe have the greatest responsibility for what happened that night are, of course, the president of the united states who was simply absent without leave and the secretary of state, hillary clinton, who was, on the contrary, very present, very active, very engaged and very wrong. i want to go through a little bit in my remarks before we open this up to questions. i want to tell you a bit in detail the story of what actually happened that night of september 11th, because so many facts have gotten obscured by the media and mistold, misrepresented by certain people in congress. remember that this began on a quiet evening. nothing was going on outside the u.s. diplomatic compound in benghazi. at a while before the attacks began, a li

administration promised swift justice after the murder of chris stevens, sean smith and ty woods and glenn dohertybut two years later, they want more time to prosecute the only suspect in u.s. custody. >> you're dealing with classified information and a terrorist who was part of al qaeda for two decades. so it doesn't surprise me that we've ended up in this place. >> reporter: the republican congressman on the house intelligence and benghazi select committees believe a lot of classified evidence will never get into court, warning the case may be weak and in trouble because of a political division by t decision by the white house. mr. wh >> when you force on a terrorist the legal system that wasn't meant to deliver the crime respect results are a mess. >> reporter: the judge granted a six week delay. former fcbi director robert mueller recently implied there are only a handful of witnesses and that the fbi placed blocks in libya. >> very difficult to identify witnesses and then to get two witnesses. one could assume that if you did have witnesses, you'd try to interview them in places where they wo

and glenn doherty. want to thank our colleague for opposing -- for proposing the topic for today's hearing. mr. chairman, i want to thank that topic, song we can see what has become of the arb recommendations. too often, over the past two years, the congressional investigation into what happens in benghazi has devolved into unseemly partisanship. we are better than that. opportunity toan focus on reform. pastan we learn from the to make things better in the future? mr. chairman, i agree with you that over the years recommendation after recommendations have been made. the question is, as you said, what became of them. i do believe that in life there are transformational moments. that is, something happens. ,t causes you to stop and pause and try to figure out how to remedy the situation and make it better. the problem is when those moments come, and when they come to all of us, the question is whether we pause, make things better -- because usually, if we don't, we repeat the urge, and usually things get

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