White House press secretary Jay Carney struggled to explain the presence of heavy weapons in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a Wednesday press briefing.
The Obama administration has maintained the attack was not premeditated, despite the presence of the kind of heavy weapons used in the attack.
During the briefing, Carney directed some questions about the attack in Benghazi to the State Department. State officials told reporters Friday that the department would not answer more questions about the attack until an investigation into the attack has been completed.
National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen said the question of whether the attacks were premeditated is still being investigated at a Wednesday hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"What we don’t have, at this point, is specific intelligence that there was a significant advanced planning or coordination for this attack," Olsen said. "Again, we’re still developing facts and looking for any indications of substantial advanced planning, we just haven’t seen that at this point."