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They spoke of the terror attack of September 11, 2012, the Obama administration's response to it, what happened before the post was surrounded by fire, and why the White House could not get its message straight after the attack.</p> <p>The attack killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, State Department information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.</p> <p>The men who testified Wednesday said the Obama administration did not tell the truth leading up to the terror attack, then blew the response itself, and lied about it. The investigation must continue, said Nordstrom.</p> <p>"The committee's labors to uncover what happened prior, during, and after the attack matter. It matters to me personally and it matters to my colleagues, to my colleagues at the Department of State," said an emotional Nordstrom.</p> <p>When UN Ambassador Susan Rice came out on TV six days after the attack, blaming it on protests to an anti-Islam YouTube film, Hicks said he was shocked.</p> <p>"I was stunned. My jaw dropped and I was embarrassed," said Hicks, who became emotional speaking about the death of his friend.</p> <p>"I received a phone call from the Prime Minister of Libya. I think it's the saddest phone call I had ever heard in my life. He told me that Ambassador Stevens had passed away," Hicks said, fighting back tears. "I immediately telephoned Washington after the news and began accelerating our effort to withdraw and move the annex."</p> <p>Before the attack, the State Department repeatedly denied requests from diplomats on the ground for additional security.</p> <p>"It was clear that in some ways the State Department got used to the notion that its primary responsibility was to live within its budget," said former Ambassador Thomas Pickering, co-chair of of the Accountability Review Board report on Benghazi issued in December.</p> <p>"The changing situation in Benghazi was not understood either on the ground, or in Washington to the degree to which it represented a danger," said Pickering.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/08/state-department-failed-to-understand-dangerous-situation-in-benghazi/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Posted by</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/jake-tapper/" rel="tag">Jake Tapper</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/rick-saleeby/" rel="tag">Rick Saleeby</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/sherisse-pham/" rel="tag">Sherisse Pham</a></span> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/category/world-lead/" title="View all posts in World Lead" rel="category tag">World Lead</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> <div class="cnn-large-embed "></div></div> </div> <div class="cnn_post_separator"><div class="cnn_gap"></div><div class="cnn_gap cnn_gap_right"></div></div>   <div class="cnnPostWrap cnn_wh1600_post_separator"> <div class="cnnWideImage"> <div data-video-height="406" data-video-width="640" id="cnnCVP2" class="cnn_video cnn_video_large" data-video-class="cnn_video_large" data-video-url="world/2013/05/07/exp-lead-why-four-americans-killed-in-benghazi.cnn" data-ssid="cnn.com_blogs_jaketapper" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243oe_/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/05/07/exp-lead-why-four-americans-killed-in-benghazi.cnn" data-context="640x406_stop_embed_onsite" data-image-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120912025947-us-embassy-attack-10-proper-horizontal-gallery.jpg" data-preset="blog_large" data-source="CNN" data-source-url="" data-video-headline="Four Americans killed in Benghazi: Why? 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Strip away the partisan posturing - the conspiracy theories from the right and the attempts to douse the scandal by the left - and the facts and testimony about what happened at Benghazi should concern any American.</p> <p>The four Americans killed last September in Libya, Ambassador Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, is not the White House's favorite topic of conversation</p> <p>"Let's be clear. Benghazi happened a long time ago," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last week.</p> <p>Not that long ago – just eight months in fact, and there are still many outstanding questions from individuals with first-hand knowledge of the events, career diplomats.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/07/four-americans-killed-in-benghazi-why/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Posted by</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/jake-tapper/" rel="tag">Jake Tapper</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/jennifer-rizzo/" rel="tag">Jennifer Rizzo</a></span> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/category/world-lead/" title="View all posts in World Lead" rel="category tag">World Lead</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> <div class="cnn-large-embed "></div></div> </div> <div class="cnn_post_separator"><div class="cnn_gap"></div><div class="cnn_gap cnn_gap_right"></div></div>   <div class="cnnPostWrap cnn_wh1600_post_separator"> <div class="cnnWideImage"> <div data-video-height="406" data-video-width="640" id="cnnCVP3" class="cnn_video cnn_video_large" data-video-class="cnn_video_large" data-video-url="us/2013/05/07/lead-pkg-mcpike-moving-on-from-a-kidnapping.cnn" data-ssid="cnn.com_blogs_jaketapper" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243oe_/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2013/05/07/lead-pkg-mcpike-moving-on-from-a-kidnapping.cnn" data-context="640x406_stop_embed_onsite" data-image-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243im_/http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130507182417-lead-pkg-mcpike-moving-on-from-a-kidnapping-00011119-horizontal-gallery.jpg" data-preset="blog_large" data-source="CNN" data-source-url="" data-video-headline="How to heal after a kidnapping" data-actual-vid-height="391"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2013/05/07/lead-pkg-mcpike-moving-on-from-a-kidnapping.cnn">Click to watch video</a></div> </div> <div class="post-3270 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-national-lead tag-erin-mcpike tag-rachel-streitfeld cnn_ie7_background_fix"> <div class="category-highlight cnn-cat-highlight-national-lead"><p>national lead</p></div> <div class="cnnLeftPost"> <div class="cnnFcIcon"></div> <div class="cnnBlogContentDateHead"> May 7th, 2013 </div> <div class="cnnGryTmeStmp">07:32 PM ET</div> <div class="cnn_share_links"> <div class="cnnOverlayMenuContainer"> <div id="cnnShare3270" class="cnnOverlayMenu"> <div class="cnnShareThisBox"> <div class="cnnShareBoxHeader"><div class="cnnShareBoxHeaderTL"></div><div class="cnnShareBoxHeaderTR"></div></div> <div class="cnnShareBoxContent"> <div class="cnnShareContent"> <div class="cnn_share_this_content"> <div class="cnnShareThisTitle"> <a href="javascript:cnnHideOverlay('cnnShare3270');"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243im_/http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/global/icons/btn_close.gif" alt="Close" title="Close" width="12" height="12"/></a><span>Share this on:</span> </div> <div class="cnnShareThisItem"> <a class="cnnShareFacebook" title="Share Moving on from a kidnapping on Facebook" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthelead.blogs.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F07%2Fmoving-on-from-a-kidnapping%2F" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </div> <div class="cnnShareThisItem"> <a class="cnnShareTwitter" title="Share Moving on from a kidnapping on Twitter" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthelead.blogs.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F07%2Fmoving-on-from-a-kidnapping%2F&text=Moving%20on%20from%20a%20kidnapping&hashtags=cnn" target="_blank">Twitter</a> </div> <div class="cnnShareThisItem"> <a class="cnnShareDigg" title="Share Moving on from a kidnapping on Digg" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthelead.blogs.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F07%2Fmoving-on-from-a-kidnapping%2F" target="_blank">Digg</a> </div> <div class="cnnShareThisItem"> <a class="cnnShareDelicious" title="Share Moving on from a kidnapping on del.icio.us" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://del.icio.us/post" onclick="window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&partner=cnn&noui&jump=close&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthelead.blogs.cnn.com%2F2013%2F05%2F07%2Fmoving-on-from-a-kidnapping%2F','toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); 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She always believed that. I, you know, just want to say what a phenomenal Mother's Day gift she gets this Mother's Day."</p> <p>For the victims, now they can begin to live again.</p> <p>They can "enjoy their families, enjoy their new found freedom, and be open to support from experts as they're guided on their journey to healing," said John Ryan, CEO of the national center for missing and exploited children, says each year there are roughly 800,000 new kidnappings, and more are in long-term confinement than people realize.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/07/moving-on-from-a-kidnapping/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Posted by</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/tag/erin-mcpike/" rel="tag">Erin 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But it wasn't late night television's search for laughs that convinced him to finally go under the knife.</p> <p>Christie said he had a wake-up call after his 50th birthday, and realized he needed to make several lifestyle changes if he wanted to be around to see his children grow.</p> <p>Family was the most important reason for the procedure, but there was an elephant in the room that Christie refused to acknowledge in Tuesday’s presser: the 2016 presidential race. </p> <p>“Whatever size I happen to be when I have to make decisions about what to do next with my career I doubt that will play any role or effect in what I decide to do,” said Christie. “It's not a career issue for me. It is a long-term health issue for me.”</p> <p>The governor is currently one of more than 78 million American adults who are considered obese, and one of more than 500,000 people who have undergone lap band surgery worldwide.</p> <p>Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, explained why the procedure might have appealed to Christie.</p> <p>In the case of gastric bypass surgery, “you are actually operating on the stomach itself, using a stapler of sorts to small pouches within the stomach, and it's just more of an invasive operation,” he said. “The risk is higher up front.”</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509062243/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/07/new-jersey-governor-tightening-his-belt/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Posted by</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a 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The nightmare is over,” said FBI agent Steve Anthony.</p> <p>Ricardo DeJesus described the sister who was abducted years ago as a girl who, "liked to dance a lot, crack jokes, be around with the family." That girl, known as “Gina” to friends and family, is a 23-year-old woman today.</p> <p>Ricardo saw the news of Gina's escape on television with their father.</p> <p>"We were in disbelief, we cried. We were shaking, we were just happy," he said. 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