Senior White House Advisor: Where The President Was During the Benghazi Attack Is Irrelevant

Obama Aide: 'Irrelevant Fact' Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks -- Weekly Standard

Host Chris Wallace reminds Pfeiffer that Obama didn't really talk with Secretary Clinton, Secretary Panetta, or Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that night. "He was talking to his national security staff," Pfeiffer insists.

Asked about whether the president entered the Situation Room, Pfeiffer says, "I don't remember what room the president was in on that night, and that's a largely irrelevant fact."

Pfeiffer then argues that Wallace's questions about the president's handling of the Benghazi terror attack are "offensive."

UPDATE: Here's a full rush transcript of the exchange:

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My Comment: Been traveling today, and it is only now that I am catching up on the Sunday morning talk shows. Could not believe what I have just watched. Senior Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer goes on the Sunday morning talk shows and says that where the President was during the Benghazi attack is irrelevant and the legality of who the IRS is targeting is also 'irrelevant'.

OK .....

Here is an easy prediction. The White House is not going to permit senior White House aide Dan Pfeiffer to hit the Sunday morning talk shows ever again.

Update: Even the Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) is now ripping into the administration.