[Principled]

And - we still don’t know why a State Dept official tweeted from the attack that they were sorry for the video that caused the riot....

... when there was no video nor was there a riot.

What prompted such a false claim?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

we still don’t know why a State Dept official tweeted from the attack that they were sorry for the video that caused the riot.

To be fair, that tweet was from someone in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, not Benghazi, where there was a demonstration purportedly about the video.

[DallasDeb]

And I keep wondering how they even knew about this video’s existence to use it as the scapegoat. The whole thing sounds fishy to me. I keep thinking Nobama wanted this to happen, but that doesn’t seem rational—I can’t figure out how it could possibly serve his needs.

[TomGuy]

And - we still don’t know why a State Dept official tweeted from the attack that they were sorry for the video that caused the riot....

IIRC, the first mention/apology regarding the reference to the video came from the US Embassy in Egypt. That apology came just hours after the Benghazi attack.

[At the time, there were so many different versions and narratives and riots/attacks going on in several countries that is was difficult for us on FR and the general public to keep up with which story/narrative/attack came from where.]