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Flowersa Posted 13 years ago
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To what "them" refer here?

"But if that’s all you hear from this, you’re missing the big picture. Graham managed to elicit a number of damaging statements from the two. Not one aircraft had been deployed during the attack; not one boot left the ground outside of Libya. As far as the 281 concurrent threat reports that Panetta and Dempsey claimed kept them from considering Benghazi a special threat, Graham asks how many of those cables came from US Ambassadors stating specifically (as Stevens’ did) that an American installation was incapable of defending itself against a sustained attack and that government buildings nearby were flying al-Qaeda flags — “because I want to know about them, if they do,” Graham adds. Dempsey tries to push that off to State, at which time Graham informs Dempsey that Hillary Clinton claimed never to have seen that cable, even though Dempsey clearly had, which he admits is “surprising.”"
  

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FlowersaTo what "them" refer here?
Flowersa“because I want to know about them, if they do,”
FlowersaGraham asks how many of those cables came from US Ambassadors stating specifically (as Stevens’ did) that an American installation was incapable of defending
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Hi Avangi but then he says if they do ? how comes?
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He's just being a jerk.
He's trying to trap the witness with a lawyer's trick.

If you're asking about the grammar, you're right. Graham's question is ungrammatical.

He should have said, "If any of the other cables do make such statements, I want to know about them."
(That is, the other 281 threat reports)

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