FOXNews.com: Gibbs defends administration's response that attacks were not terror related

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Gibbs defends administration's response that attacks were not terror related Sep 23rd 2012, 13:40 A top adviser to President Obama on Sunday defended the administration for saying in the aftermath of the deadly assaults on U.S. outposts that they were not a terrorist attack. Campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said the answers given Sept. 16 by Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, were based on "the best information she had." Rice gave her responses on five Sunday morning TV talks shows, days after at least 20 attacks on U.S. outposts in the Middle East and North Africa, including one on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. She said the attacks were "spontaneous" and started with an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, over an anti-Islamic film. Gibbs, a former White House spokesman for Obama, also said he expected more information will emerge. "I anticipate we will continue to learn more facts about the awful assassination of our ambassador," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday acknowledged the assault in Libya was a terror attack. However, the administration has stood by its assertion that investigations so far show the attacks were not pre-planned.

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