Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell testified Thursday that military assets from Europe were not sent to Benghazi during the terrorist attack there out of a "sense of deference to the desires of the State Department," run at the time by Hillary Clinton.
Lovell served at U.S. Africa Command's headquarters in Germany when the attack happened.
"Basically, there was a lot of looking to the State Department for what it was that they wanted and in the deference to the Libyan people and the sense of deference to the desires of the State Department in terms of what they would like to have," he said.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) asked Lovell if they ever asked him to "go save the people" there, and Lovell replied that did not happen.
"Four individuals died, sir," he said. "We obviously did not respond in time to get there."
"Could we have?" Chaffetz asked.
"We may have been able to but we'll never know," Lovell said.