With nuland on monday, september 17, the day after ambassador rice delivering those talking points had maintained that benghazi was the result of a protest gone awry and not a terrorist attack. simply on the basis of what ambassador rice has publicly disdisclosed, does the united states government regard what happened in benghazi as an act of terror? again, i m not going to put labels on this until we have a complete investigation. okay? so you don t regard it as an act of terrorism? i don t think we know enough. i don t think we know enough. when she made that statement, nuland had already been informed by the central intelligence agency, quote: we do know that islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack. a conclusion that nuland fought strenuously to remove from the talking points. quote: the line about knowing there were extremists among the demonstrators will come back to us at podium. how far do we know who they are, et cetera. she wrote his or he
Chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us now live with more on that. james? reporter: good afternoon. victoria newlin is a well red carpeted career regarded career foreign service activist. but her senate confirmation hearing will almost certainly revive questions about her role in the development of the benghazi talking points and about her early statements about benghazi from the state department podium. here s an exchange i had with her on monday, september 17, the day after the talking points were delivered. ambassador rice spoke to this, she suggested that there had been an ongoing demonstration outside the consulate or in the proximity of the consulate in benghazi that was, in essence, hijacked by more militant elements who came armed to the affair. i just want to nail this down with you. you are, you stand by this notion that there was, in fact, an ongoing demonstration. i d simply say that i don t
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