By Michael O'Brien, NBC NewsFollow @mpoindc (https://twitter.com/mpoindc)
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's assertion that President Barack Obama failed to label last month's attack on a diplomatic post in Libya as a terrorist attack quickly emerged as one of the highlights in a testy debate between the two candidates.Former Gov. Mitt Romney had an apparent misstep during the second debate of the 2012 presidential election while laying out the timeline for President Obama's use of the word 'terrorism' to describe the recent attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.Romney's claim about Obama's immediate response to the Sept. 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was rebuffed by CNN's Candy Crowley in a somewhat unusual moment in which a moderator disputed a candidate's claim.
As Romney argued that Obama had failed to recognize the incident as an act of terror, Crowley interjected: "He did call it an act of terror."
Her dissent drew scattered applause from the audience, in violation of debate rules.
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