article_snippet: In separate exchanges weeks later, Sullivan wrote Clinton to reassure Clinton that Clinton wouldn't be held to account in the same way as then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who falsely claimed on national television that the death and destruction in Benghazi was the consequence of a protest that spiraled out of control. '
article_snippet: Clinton did make clear our view that this started spontaneously then evolved,' Sullivan wrote to Clinton at one point, seeming to reinforce the idea that the Obama administration planned to stick with that assessment..
article_snippet: Later, when the White House began referring to Benghazi as a 'terror attack,' Sullivan told Clinton that in Sullivan own publiccomments
article_snippet: Sullivan had steered clear of the nettles that had snared Rice. '
article_snippet: ‘spontaneous’ or characterized the nettles that had snared Rice motivations,' Sullivan wrote, according to the Times.