It's important to know there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. 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.
On the recordSeptember 16, 2012
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Rice provides the U.S. government's assessment of the Benghazi attack, emphasizing that it was spontaneous rather than premeditated.
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