“At the time Ambassador Rice [blamed the Benghazi attacks on protests against an anti-Muslim video] . . . the president of Libya [said] that 50 people had been arrested, that terrorists from other countries had come to Libya, and that the attack was premeditated and planned . . . I don’t understand why she would not have at least qualified her response.”

— Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), after meeting with possible secretary-of-state nominee Susan Rice, on Rice’s public statements on Benghazi