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    Catherine Herridge reports from Washington, D.C.

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-- -- just doing now which is new developments on the deadly consulate attack in Benghazi Libya.

Fox News has now learned that some classified documents will be made available to lawmakers today.

On Capitol Hill we heard from her for a -- -- This investigation is ongoing.

And it certainly has been ongoing for our chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge who joins us now to talk about what she has learned about this meeting good morning Catherine.

Good morning that.

Martin thank you that there is real and significant pressure on the State Department this morning to produce these classified cables and other sensitive documents.

But the security lapses and intelligence leading up -- Gaza attack.

In a series of letters lawmakers are complain that the Obama administration is not living up to its stated goal a greater transparency.

Fox News has also learned that the house foreign affairs committee is seeking among dozens of documents.

The classified cable first reported by Fox News the summarized an emergency meeting in Ben Ghazi less than a month before the attack.

Is that the regional security officer -- the top State Department security official in the region quote.

Expressed concerns with the ability to defend -- post in the event of a coordinated attack.

Due to limited manpower security measures weapons capabilities host nation support.

And the overall size of the compound.

That cable essentially for toward the manner in which the US ambassador in three other Americans would be killed a month later.

This meeting today is in in camera or classified which means that lawmakers can review the documents that -- with their staff but no documents can be taken away or copied.

In that -- more.

Yeah he's so right I mean that -- document -- -- pretty much exactly play by play component of that happening.

To those four people who lost analyze that night so what do we know Catherine about this leak investigation that's ongoing.

Wasn't this is a very important development based on a letter from the Director of National Intelligence.

And the CIA director to the house homeland security committee chairman a -- inquiry has been launched after journalists reported.

That they received the same intelligence briefing as US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice whose controversial appearances on the five Sunday talk shows a -- sixteenth.

Less than a week after the attack portrayed Ben Ghazi as a demonstration that spun out of control and not a terrorist attack.

It was a White House aware.

What the CIA director of the director of national thousands are going to be saying.

About the about the video about it being a spontaneous attack about the refusal to call -- -- terrorist attack.

For so many days was that done told -- -- the intelligence community or were they in discretionary consultation with the white out.

And the larger question -- this inquiry is whether this journalist Lesley Gelb.

Received classified information that was not authorized in a briefing by the CIA director or the Director of National Intelligence.

This is just an inquiry at this point but congressman king told fox that this may be the first step toward a more formal criminal investigation.

Catherine thank you very much -- -- -- -- there are new reports.

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