One could take that as a reference to acts which include the tragedy in Benghazi, obviously, but there was clearly no effort made to label it an act of terrorism. One reason why this might be: According to U.S. law, acts of terrorism are premeditated. The Obama administration’s line for days following Obama’s Rose Garden statement suggested that the attack wasn’t premeditated."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/330676/act-terror-patrick-brennan
I went and read his Rose Garden speech after Candy thing...and in the second to last paragraph, Obama refers to Benghazzi as a “terrible act”....