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After that hearing, Rep. Adam Schiff echoed the president's comments on Rice, saying those "claiming that the U.N. ambassador had some different information ... are either unfamiliar with the facts or willfully ignoring them."

The California Democrat said the ambassador got the same assessment as lawmakers that the violence in Benghazi began with "a spontaneous protest that evolved into something militant."

"We were given a very early assessment of events in Benghazi, and we were given an unclassified version that we could share with the public. That unclassified version turned out to be inaccurate, as we found out later," Schiff said.

It was not clear if Rice's comments came up at the corresponding Senate hearing, though Feinstein did say, "We had a good back and forth, and it was not always the easiest thing for everybody."

Then-CIA Director David Petraeus -- who is set to testify Friday before the House and Senate intelligence committees, one week after resigning citing an extramarital affair -- did develop unclassified talking points in the days after the incident, a source who has spoken to him said.

But he had no direct involvement in comments made by Rice, which may have used some of Petraeus' information but were otherwise distinct, the source said.

Petraeus is testifying because he wants to clear up "a lot of misrepresentations of what he told Congress initially," said the source, who is directly familiar with the ex-CIA chief's analysis of the situation.

Pentagon releases official timeline of Benghazi attack

He knew "almost immediately" that Ansar al-Sharia, a loosely connected radical Islamist group, was responsible for the attack, as suggested by multiple sources and video from the scene, said the source.

At the same time, a stream of intelligence -- including about 20 distinct reports -- also emerged indicating that a brewing furor over the anti-Islamic video preceded the attack.

The CIA eventually disproved the reports that film-related protests had anything to do with the attack. But this didn't happen until after Petraeus' initial briefings to lawmakers, in which he discussed all the possibilities, the source said.

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(CBS News) WASHINGTON -- A congressional investigation viewed video Thursday that was recorded by security cameras the night of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The first video of the attack was captured by cell phones. But it took about 10 more days for the FBI to get its hands on video taken by security cameras at the consulate. That classified video, shown to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, answers some of the many questions surrounding the attack.

There has been a lot of controversy about whether the Sept. 11 attack -- which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador -- was planned by terrorists or the result of a mob angered by an internet movie ridiculing Islam.

A U.S. intelligence official said the first video shows no sign the assault arose -- as first thought -- out of a demonstration. But it also indicates the attack, though intentional, was not well planned.

The video makes clear the attackers did not know the layout of the compound. The attack lasted about an hour and ended with the consulate in flames, a scene captured by a surveillance drone overhead.

The surviving Americans retreated to a CIA safe house about a mile away, where they continued to take fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.

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After another hour, the shooting stopped. For four hours, no shots were fired, giving a rescue team flown in from Tripoli time to make its way to the annex.

Ten minutes after the rescuers arrived, a second attack began, this time with mortars. That attack was also captured on video -- both by security cameras and a drone overhead -- and it shows a more organized and deliberate assault than the one on the consulate.

Intercepted cell phone calls and text messages from that night indicate that some of those who attacked the consulate were inspired in part by televised scenes of protesters storming the American embassy in Cairo, enraged over an anti-Muslim video running on the internet. Others seemed to have nothing more in mind than looting.

That first attack created an opportunity for the second attack -- the one on the annex. Whether it was planned that way all along is not clear.

U.S. officials say the four-hour lull in the fighting gave the attackers time to bring in more firepower in the form of mortars. They fired five rounds: the first two missed, while the next three hit.

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Intercepted cell phone calls and text messages from that night indicate that some of those who attacked the consulate were inspired in part by televised scenes of protesters storming the American embassy in Cairo, enraged over an anti-Muslim video running on the internet. Others seemed to have nothing more in mind than looting.

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That unclassified version turned out to be inaccurate

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The CIA eventually disproved the reports that film-related protests had anything to do with the attack

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Again... the CIA was able to "eventually" disprove the film-related protest story, but that's the talking point they let rip. They kept quiet a more provable conclusion known about "almost immediately" of it being a terrorist attack.

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You know it can be an attack (without a protest before) and have the video as a factor at the same time, right?

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Don't conflate the issue of whether there was a protest in Benghazi and the issue of whether the video and protests elsewhere was a catalyst for the attack. You know it can be an attack (without a protest before) and have the video as a factor at the same time, right?

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Even if this is so, the president knew about it right away and not only let her promote lies, he continued to spout those same lies Himself. It's shameful that you continue to cover for him.

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The President lied to the public in the days followings.

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Whoop d f'ing doo. SOMETIMES IT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO! What matters most is the administration not do something to further escalate the potential uprising.. The explanation of events can be done In a more appropriate time

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What's shameful is the continued ignorance displayed by those who think they are owed an immediate explanation.

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Kickadawgitfeelsgood

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The President lied to the public in the days followings. Whoop d f'ing doo. SOMETIMES IT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!

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What matters most is the administration not do something to further escalate the potential uprising..

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The explanation of events can be done In a more appropriate time.

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I don't expect many Republicans of today to understand. He'll! If you can't figure out to nominate a presidential candidate, why would I expect the clueless to understand foreign relation dilemmas?

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What matters most is the administration not do something to further escalate the potential uprising..

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You don't think giving credence to a film and showing that others were allegedly so upset abut it that they successfully struck a US Embassy might have escalated similar real protests throughout the ME?

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