During a conference call Tuesday evening, two State Department officials briefed reporters on the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Obama administration officials had insisted that the violence was a result of a “spontaneous” protest against an anti-Islam film. It is now crystal clear, if it wasn’t before, that there was never any protest.

Instead, as revealed during the congressional testimony of State Department official Charlene Lamb on Wednesday, four Americans were killed in a large-scale terrorist assault involving “dozens of attackers…that was unprecedented in its size and intensity.”