 The days and weeks following, Obama, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and others blamed the attack on a YouTube video created by an American that criticized Muslims. Quote, ìBased on the best information we have today,î Rice said at the time on Face the Nation, ìthe attack began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours early in Cairo, where there was a violent protest outside our embassy, starked by this hateful video.î