After a week, the White House decides the Libya assault and murder of the US Ambassador was a terrorist attack. Jay Carney announced this and it was he who last week made the "foolish" statement that the riots had nothing to do with the United States. And all the media could focus on last week was Mitt Romney's criticism of the President's response. Apparently, Romney was right after all!

The White House, after more than a week in which it has come under fire from Republicans, is now calling last week’s assault on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, a “terrorist attack.”

“It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack,” the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, told reporters traveling on Air Force One on Thursday. “Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of American officials.”

Also on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the creation of a panel to investigate the attack. The panel, called an Accountability Review Board, will be led by Thomas R. Pickering, a veteran diplomat and former under secretary of state. The board is authorized by a 1986 law intended to strengthen security at American diplomatic missions.

NYT