The White House Was Not Aware Of Requests For More Benghazi Security

White House: Obama And Biden Were Never Aware Of Requests For More Benghazi Security -- Foreign Policy

Vice President Joseph Biden speaks only for himself and President Barack Obama, and neither man was aware that U.S. officials in Libya had asked the State Department for more security before the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, a top White House official told The Cable.

Biden has come under fire for saying at Thursday night's debate, "We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there."

The Cable asked Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes whether Biden was speaking for the entire Obama administration, including the State Department, which acknowledged receiving multiple requests for more Libya security in the months before the attacks. Rhodes said that Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time.

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My Comment: Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post disagrees. What's my take .... President Obama and Vice President Biden were probably not aware of requests for more security .... the US government is big, and that responsibility belonged to someone else. But the buck has to stop somewhere, and in this case the one who has to be held accountable is the one who runs the State Department .... in short .... Secretary of State Clinton. As I have said before .... in any other administration she would be resigning right now .... but nothing will happen until after the election, and if President Obama is re-elected, she will be politely shown the door and be told to take that retirement that she has been talking about for the past year.