Surprise, it was a terrorist attack.

The White House Spokesman propagandist, Jay Carney finally admits the obvious, the attack on the US Embassy in Libya was a organized, pre-planned attack by al-Qaeda, not a spontaneous attack as claim by the Administration for the last 11 days.

Why did the Obama administration stick with the false story until it fell apart?  The Christian Science Monitor answers that question in the following paragraphs:

The characterization is important, because it opens the door to the conclusion that the attack was a preplanned assault, resulting in the deaths of four US diplomats, including the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.
The repercussions of declaring that the Benghazi attack was a planned terrorist assault on the United States would be extensive. For starters, it would raise questions about the Obama administration’s precautions in a volatile region and its preparedness for anti-US strikes in an area known to harbor Al Qaeda and other Islamist extremist elements.

This forces oneself to ask a simple question, if the Administration can't protect one of their own, even after they got a warning from the Libyan government about the pending attack how can they protect the rest of us?