No, they did not justify it, at all.

State Won’t Say Who Told Clinton on 9/11/12 Benghazi was Being Justified ‘As Response to Inflammatory Material Posted on Internet’

They explained it in this way, but they never said it was justified.

In fact, they condemned it, but also joined the Muslims and their propaganda and condemned the internet film of Mohammed’s life for, according to them and according to that propaganda, setting off the Muslim street.

If I recall correctly they jailed the guy who put up the video and threw the book at him for some irrelevant offense, but made it plain they were slamming him because, according to our own administration, he predictably and perhaps even intentionally offended Muslim sensibilities.

Or perhaps, more cowardly still, for predictably and perhaps even intentionally provoking Muslim ire, of which we all must be so very afraid.

But neither is actually unlawful in any way, though while the administration was betraying American values and advertising its cowardice several Democratic heavies including Zbigniew Brzezinski personally – he on cable news – demanded, in evident contempt for the First Amendment as well as the very heart of the Enlightenment tradition, that giving religious offense be made criminal under US federal law.

But both blasphemy and sacrilege in any degree are lawful, everyday forms of expression throughout America and the modern West, the usual target being Christianity.

But the administration took it upon itself to say that not only Obama or Hillary personally but the United States of America, in Hillary’s words, “deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious belief of others.”

And that cowardly and irresponsible announcement conceded far more than anyone had ever even demanded!

After all, by that idiotic and shameful account the US deplores any communication by any person A to any person B that A thinks B’s religion false, one of the meanings of “denigrate” being “to deny the importance or validity of.”

And the proper response to any such shameful and disgusting claim by the president, the secretary of state, or any high official is outraged denial, exactly the response even now of the political right.

When it’s about Christianity, the left defends enlightenment values and the right defends the claims of religion.

But when it’s about Islam, you see, the shoes are on the opposite feet.

Almost immediately, Republicans criticized the administration for trying to cover up a terrorist attack on Obama’s watch with an election coming up.

That’s because what actually happened was a popular Muslim street celebration, in Cairo and Benghazi, of the successful terrorism against America of 9/11/01, along with a planned attack by al-Qaeda terrorists in Benghazi.

The voices of official Muslim propaganda from the Middle East quickly hid the celebration behind outrage at the insult to Islam – and there is always an insult to Islam when they want to find one – constituted by that silly video.

On that same day they could easily have picked any of hundreds of other things on the net to blow smoke about, to exactly the same effect.

Muslim propaganda that served both to mask the infuriating spectacle of thousands of Muslims celebrating the 9/11 attacks on America and to add to the nearly constant barrrage of violent intimidation of the West so dear to so many thousands of contemporary Muslims and always greeted with apologies and shame by American liberals and even many not-so-liberal Democrats.