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Bob: Madame Ambassador, he says that this is something that has been in the planning stages for months. I understand you have been saying that you think it was spontaneous. Are we not on the same page here?
Madame Ambassador: Well, Bob, let me tell you what we understand to be the assessment at present. First of all, very importantly, as you discussed with the president, there is an investigation that the United States government will launch led by the FBI that has begun.
Bob: But they are not there.
Madame Ambassador: They are not on the ground yet, but they already begun looking at all sorts of evidence of various sorts already available to them and to us, and they will get on the ground and continue the investigation. So we'll want to see the results of that investigation to draw any definitive conclusions. But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is, in fact, what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals joined in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are unfortunately readily now available in Libya post revolution, and that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.
Bob: But you do not agree with him that this was something that had been plotted out We several months do
Madame Ambassador: not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.