Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday that the blame and responsibility for last year's attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya must ultimately rest with President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In addition to the attack that left four Americans dead, the White House has come under fire when it was discovered that the official releases on the incident were heavily edited to remove the word terrorism - just ahead of the presidential election.
"I think people looking at the changed stories on Benghazi and the way the talking points were altered are of a view that they were trying to support a narrative that, in fact, did not exist," Rumsfeld, who served under George W. Bush, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Democrats counter that Republicans are trying anything and everything to discredit Clinton out of fear that she will run for president in 2016.
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