Petraeus testified about Benghazi. (Creative Commons)

During his testimony, he supported U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who had been accused of misleading the nation in her insistence that “the attack was a spontaneous eruption rather than a failure to defend against a terrorist attack.”

He told the committee that after the CIA told the White House that the attack was a terrorist attack by a group linked to al-Qaeda, the Obama administration altered that explanation. Petraeus said he knew from the beginning that the attacks had not been part of a spontaneous protest over the anti-Muslim film.

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