Libya - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Libya Index / Locations Transcripts Dennis Ross ...to prevent humanitarian disaster in Benghazi [Libya], which is legitimate. But the... Derek Chollet ...be threats to civilian population and Benghazi and a violent suppression of a... Jeffrey Feltman ...we believed Gaddafi was going to do in Benghazi , combined with the pressure from th... Jim Steinberg ...not just in Tripoli but in the east and Benghazi and in the west, that really made i... ...least, about exterminating the rats in Benghazi and the movement which we can see o... James Clapper ...about because we're going to get to Benghazi [the 2012 Benghazi attack]. But jus... ...going to get to Benghazi [the 2012 Benghazi attack]. But just since you brought i... ...still is. Yes. So before we talk about Benghazi —we have about fifteen minutes left s... ...talk about, but I do want to talk about Benghazi , in part because, in your book, i... ...the Republicans in the Congress treated Benghazi , and to a certain extent still tal... ...scandal and a coverup, but you had seen Benghazi in the context of the Libyan civil wa... ...historically, what is the importance of Benghazi that you want historians and student... ...led him to believe that he could go to Benghazi , which was a known hotbed o... ...to deal with what happened in Benghazi as you just described it, as a— Well... ...opposition and how it had focused on Benghazi . In starting a session on the secon... ...of the episodes that we have discussed— Benghazi , the Snowden episode. It seems from— ... ...episode. It seems from— Well yes, Benghazi was another thing that consumed a lo... ...reading it in the future, as I did on Benghazi , I'll point out that your account i... Show more... Robert Gates ...making the case that the factions in Benghazi and in the east represented some kin... ...his forces to the east to try and take Benghazi , and then him saying publicly that h... ...going to happen to all those people in Benghazi if Qaddafi actually got there. So ... ...somewhere between Tripoli [Libya] and Benghazi , and said, “This far and no farther... ...probably, negotiated outcome between Benghazi and Tripoli, or some low level o... Susan Rice ...the principals was lacking. And then Benghazi happened less than a year later an... ...officials. I went to both Tripoli and Benghazi , the two major population centers, an... ...didn't sufficiently seize. Now, after Benghazi , I think it would have—had that no... ...think at that point––and not just after Benghazi , but in part because of Benghazi––muc... ...because of my personal experience with Benghazi , I concluded that there was nothin... Michael Posner ...Libya when Chris Stevens was killed in Benghazi . But we saw it in Egypt in thos... Michael Leiter ...there. It definitely accelerates post- Benghazi [attack]—and I say that from th... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Human Rights Human Rights go to the Public Health Public Health go to the Black Politics Black Politics