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Susan Rice: “It's important to know that there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2012
It's important to know that there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That will tell us with certainty what transpired, but our current best assessment based on the information that we have at present is that in fact, what this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what had transpired in Cairo.
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Susan Rice
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Susan Rice explains the initial assessment of the Benghazi attack as spontaneous, linking it to protests in Cairo.

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