So is it the Administration's stance that they thought Benghazi was a terrorist attack from day 2?

[Azathoth]

126. The government's position, from day 2 onward, was that it was a coordinated attack

In the first few days, there were conflicting statements over whether or not the attackers were linked to the protesters, and whether or not the video motivated the attack. Susan Rice, in particular, blamed the attack on the video. But in any case, a planned, well-armed, coordinated attack on a U.S. consulate that takes the life of an ambassador is, by definition, an "act of terror," which is how Obama characterized it in the Rose Garden on day 2.

This entire thing, from beginning to end, is a manufactured controversy straight the right-wing alternate-fact bubble. It all boils down to feigned outrage over the fact that Obama didn't spend weeks after the attack jumping up and down waving a five foot cross and screaming that we would embark on a holy crusade to cleanse the earth of the ungodly brown-skinned Islamofascist terrornazis.