Susan Rice on Benghazi: Hey, I only repeated what intel officials told me

In an interview Monday with The Washington Post, Rice said she relied on daily updates from intelligence agencies in the days before her television appearances and on a set of talking points prepared for senior members of the administration by intelligence officials. She said there was no attempt to pick and choose among possible explanations for the attack.

“Absolutely not,” Rice said. “It was purely a function of what was provided to us” and had been given to Congress the day before…

In the interview, Rice said intelligence agencies were doing their best to understand what had happened in complicated circumstances and should not be blamed. “What you get Day 1, Day 2, Day 14 isn’t the whole story,” she said.

Intelligence agencies collected “multiple threads” of information that day and night, and the assessment of those threads changed over time, Undersecretary of State Patrick F. Kennedy said last week before a congressional committee.