Two senior State Department officials told reporters on Tuesday evening that there was “nothing unusual” throughout the day of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, CNN reports:
The call, a day ahead of a congressional hearing into security failings at the diplomatic mission, was an attempt to offer the State Department’s view that the severity of the attack and speed at which it unfolded made it impossible to defend even with some of the increased security measures that had been requested – but not fulfilled – before September 11.
