Romney campaign: Obama 'misled the American people' on Libya attacks

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people through "incomplete and indirect" responses to questions on the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as the first day of congressional testimony on the violence wrapped up.

“With each passing day, we learn more about the ways in which the Obama Administration misled the American people about the tragic events that transpired in the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012," said Romney policy director Lanhee Chen in a statement. "Nearly a month later, the Obama Administration continues to offer incomplete and indirect responses to simple and straightforward questions."

Chen goes on to demand a "full accounting of the facts not just from that day, but from the days and months leading up to the attack."

On Tuesday, senior State Department officials provided the first detailed timeline of the attack and the movements of slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, and indicated that there had not been a protest preceding the attack, as had been previously reported.

The Romney campaign said there remained "many questions about whether or not the Administration properly heeded warnings, provided adequate security, or told the American people the whole truth in the aftermath of the attack."

"On an issue of this importance, nothing short of full and complete candor is acceptable," Chen said. "We can't learn from our mistakes if we don't undertake an honest, transparent effort to assess them."

At the White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney said officials had initially spoken "based on the facts we knew at the time" and that the White House has always insisted "this was an ongoing investigation."

"This is a moving picture," Carney said, adding that "our sole interest — the president's sole interest — is to find out exactly what happened."

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