Via Mediaite:
During a segment on MSNBC’s NOW, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley defended President Barack Obama’s handing of the attack on an American consulate in Libya. He insisted that the administration took its time in declaring the September 11 assault in Benghazi to be a terror attack for more than a week because they were conducting a thorough investigation. Crowley insisted that the actual declaration that the attack was terrorism occurred at “light speed” by the standards of the federal government. The government has, however, declared attacks that have occurred since Libya as being terrorism far faster. This suggests, at the very least, the national security and intelligence community requires a new definition of light speed.
Apparently “light speed” in their universe is nine days.
September 20th, 2012:
(NBC News) — For the first time since four American diplomats were killed during violent protests at the U.S. consulate in Libya, the White House spokesman acknowledged that the attacks were an act of terrorism.
During a gaggle with reporters on Air Force One, Press Secretary Jay Carney called the attacks “terrorism” in the sense that they fit the definition of such an act.
“It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials – that’s self-evident,” Carney said to reporters traveling en route to Florida, where the president participated in a forum hosted by the Spanish-language network Univision.