re: #161 The Mongoose

I’ll edit it to read “What this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what happened in Cairo,” which is what she said.

This might help
theatlanticwire.com
In a conference call to reporters on Tuesday, senior State Department officials said they couldn’t explain why Rice went on a Sunday talk show blitz last month describing the Benhazi attacks as a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam film in the U.S. “That was not our conclusion,” the officials said. “That is the question you’d have to ask others.”

In the Rice version of events, the attacks that led to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans began as an anti-film demonstration and devolved into a deadly assault. But State Department officials say there was no anti-film demonstration. “Everything is calm at 8:30 p.m., there is nothing unusual. There had been nothing unusual during the day outside,” officials told reporters Tuesday. “Then at 9:40 they saw on the security cameras that there were armed men invading the compound.”