Candy Crowley gets it wrong: Obama never called Benghazi a ‘terror attack’ in Rose Garden speech
Romney looked at him with consternation as the president didn’t say whether he called the Libya attack an act of terrorism on September 12.
To much surprise, debate moderator Candy Crowley interjected herself into the conversation and said that the president did in fact call it a terrorist attack during the Rose Garden speech, thereby shielding the president from embarrassment over the question.
“He did in fact say it was an act of terror,” Candy Crowley said to Gov. Romney.
A review of the official transcript on the White House website and the video from the Rose Garden address shows that not once did the president call the Benghazi attack a "terror attack." He used the word "terror" exactly once, late in his address:
“No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.” From the context, it was clear that his reference to "terror" was general. Not once did he apply that characterization to Benghazi.