Fox News’ Chris Wallace: “All right, what — let’s turn to the hearing and as you say, it’s not a hearing, it’s an inquiry. What are your biggest questions, your biggest concerns, as you begin this inquiry into what happened in Benghazi?”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): “Well, my biggest concern is, there are literally hundreds of threat warnings in the material that has been accumulated. There were five attacks during the year, one prior attack on the consulate itself. The question I have, is, you know, why wasn’t something done about it. There are many options. One is to recall the ambassador, sit down with him, have his personal assessment of security. See what you can do, and do it. The second is, to immediately beef things up in a major way. Changes were made but the changes were not major. What’s clear to me — and I went to the memorial service in San Francisco for Chris Stevens. The Libyan ambassador to the United States spoke and twice during his remarks, he said, ‘I am so sorry that we could not protect your consulate,’ which is a total admission that the Libyan government was incapable of protecting our facilities. This raises a major question for the future. We have 285 embassies and consulates over the world. And, the threats pour in. What do we do? And I –”

Wallace: “Let me ask you, if I may, Senator, excuse me. Directly, do you think that U.S. officials in Washington had enough information beforehand, enough of these warnings, to beef up security before the attack ever happened?”

Sen. Feinstein: “Well, that’s the purpose of our inquiry. And that decision will be made by the committee. I’ve not had an opportunity yet to go through what are thousands of pages. And, I — you know, I want to do that. I want other members to do it. I don’t want to jump to any conclusion. But, it would appear to me — and this is just me — that the five prior incidents in the year, which aren’t intelligence, they are not threats, they are actual attacks, on the British ambassador, on our consulate once before, on a number of other things, on the United States missions. Now, that, to me, is sufficient intelligence to make a decision. Now – so we want to see what the extenuating circumstances are, that the security wasn’t beefed by us, if it couldn’t be beefed up by the Libyans or we didn’t close down the consulate.” (Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday,” 11/11/12)