This woman can lie with the best of them, she was told within 24 hours that it was a terrorist attack, five days later she repeatedly claimed it was the result of protests over the Mohammed film.

Via Fox News:

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, in her first public comments on Libya since her controversial account days after the attack, blamed intelligence community talking points for the faulty narrative.

The light-on-details explanation Monday came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for any security failures leading up to the consulate attack last month.

But with the accounts coming as both presidential candidates head into a debate Tuesday night that will focus in part on foreign policy, neither appeared to settle mounting questions on the Hill about how the administration got the story so wrong.

Rice did not offer many details on the nature of the intelligence updates or whether they reflected a more nuanced version of events than the one she told the Sunday after the attack. In those interviews, Rice repeatedly claimed the deadly assault was a “spontaneous” reaction to protests over an anti-Islam film.

The administration later acknowledged it was a coordinated terror attack on the anniversary of 9/11.

Rice told The Washington Post that she used daily updates from the intelligence community and talking points prepared by that community for senior administration members before her Sunday show appearances.

She said her comments were “absolutely not” an attempt to cherry-pick an explanation.

“It was purely a function of what was provided to us,” she said.