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The BlogGeneral on Benghazi: 'We Never Received a Request for Support from the State Department'11:38 AM, Feb 7, 2013
• By DANIEL HALPER
 General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the State Department never requested "support" in Benghazi: "Why didn't you put forces in place to be ready to respond?," Senator John McCain asked the general. Dempsey started, "Because we never received a request to do so, number one. And number two, we --" McCain iterrupted, "You never heard of Ambassador Stevens's repeated warnings?" "I had, through General Ham," responded Dempsey, referring to the commander of AFRICOM. "But we never received a request for support from the State Department, which would have allowed us to put forces--" "So it's the State Department's fault?" "I'm not blaming the State Department," Dempsey responded. 
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