New Benghazi revelations: Should Republicans lay off Susan Rice?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.N. ambassador was not privy to the latest intelligence before she said the attack stemmed from a riot

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, repeatedly asserted that the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack stemmed from a protest — which turns out to be incorrect.
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Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been the focal point of accusations that the Obama administration misled the American public about the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. On Sept. 16, five days after the attack, Rice asserted on several news programs that the attack stemmed from a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video, a claim that the White House has since corrected. Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y.) has called on Rice to resign for "misinforming the American people," and she has been heavily criticized by conservative media. However, Rice has maintained that she was only relaying what intelligence officials had told her, and it looks like she's telling the truth, say Adam Entous and Siobhan Gorman at The Wall Street Journal:

Some intelligence came in on Saturday evening [September 15] that contradicted the protest claim and prompted the office of the Director of National Intelligence to begin to question the agencies' initial conclusions, intelligence officials said.

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