Clinton on No Known Calls with Stevens: ‘I Was the Boss of Ambassadors in 270 Countries’

‘I was the boss of ambassadors in places like Afghanistan where shortly before I visited one time the embassy had been under brutal assault for the Taliban for hours’

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We have ambassadors that we send to places that have been bombed and attacked all the time. 
>> And you're their boss. 
>> You're right, I am. 
>> You're their leader. Is that correct? Are there ever situations where you call them, where you bring them in, where you are personally caring and concerned and are letting them know that? Are there situations where you recall -- I'd like to know what the conversation was with ambassador Stevens and what month it was with ambassador Stevens. Because there are no call logs with him. There's nothing from the ops center with him that we have found. We have no record that you had any conversations with the ambassador after you swore him in and before he died and you were his boss. 
>> I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries. I was the boss of ambassadors in places like Afghanistan where shortly before I visited one time the embassy had been under brutal assault for the Taliban for hours. I am very well aware of the dangers that are faced by our diplomats and our development professionals. There was never a recommendation from Chris Stevens or anyone else to close Benghazi. Now sitting here in the comfort of this large, beautiful hearing room, it's easy to say well, there should have been. Somebody should have stood up and said, do that. But that was not the case. And it is a very difficult choice with respect to any of these facilities given the level of threat and instability that we could be front around the world today. It's deeply, deeply distressing when any of our facilities or our personnel are in danger. And we do, and have done, the best we can, and I think we can do better, which is why I implemented all of the arb's recommendations, which we have barely talked about. Those were essential in trying

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