U.S. Intelligence Finds Organized Terrorist Attack in Libya

Some of the people who carried out the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, “were linked to groups affiliated with, or sympathetic to, al-Qaeda,” according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The intelligence community has shifted from its initial judgment that the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans began as a spontaneous reaction during protests against an anti-Islam film made in the U.S., according to a statement issued yesterday. Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for providing that assessment in the days after the Sept. 11 attack.