This is getting interesting now....I doubt if Hillary will be the scapegoat for Obama and Biden's failings.....She has more to lose in 2016 than either Obama or Biden...and it will be interesting to see what position Bill takes...he already doesn't like Obama....This could get very interesting...
But remember the Buck Always Stops at the President's Office....even though this jerk always blames someone else for everything....
White House throws Hillary under the 2012 bus
1:01 PM 10/12/2012 Neil Munro
The White House is throwing Hillary Clinton under the 2012 election bus.
Top officials have already claimed the nation’s intelligence agencies did not alert the White House to the growing danger facing the State Department’s facility in Benghazi, Libya, which was destroyed Sept. 11 by a jihadi attack on the 11th anniversary of the atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The claim was repeated Oct. 11 by Vice President Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky. “We weren’t told they wanted more security,” he announced.
Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for communications, extended the claim Oct. 11 by telling told Foreign Policy magazine that neither Biden nor President Barack Obama knew of the growing danger.
“Biden speaks only for himself and the president and neither of them knew about the requests at the time,” Rhodes said, according to Foreign policy.
“These kinds of issues are handling in the State Department by security officials,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said during Friday’s press briefing.
Security matters “are decided at the State Department,” he said, amid tough questioning from Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry.
The White House’s statements leaves Hillary Clinton on the hook, because she runs the Department of State.
The widening breach between Clinton and the team of Obama and Biden comes as the president is being outpolled by Gov. Mitt Romney.
Both Biden and Clinton would likely be front-runners to compete for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2016, should they decide to run.
Clinton has cooperated with a congressional inquiry by allowing senior State Department officials to attend a Wednesday hearing gaveled by Rep. Darrell Issa, the GOP chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The witnesses boosted media coverage of the administration’s policy, but were forced to answer Issa’s questions about the department’s reasons for rejecting multiple requests for extra security at the Benghazi site.
They also described their efforts to reduce security at the facility from five U.S. guards to three U.S. guards.
Two whistle-blowers gave testimony at the hearing to describe the department’s opposition to extra security.
“For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the [State Department] building,” Eric Nordstrom, the department’s chief security officer for the region, told Issa’s hearing.
Republicans have argued that the lack of security at the Benghazi facility was caused by the administration’s desire to downplay the risks of Obama’s 2009 outreach policy to Islamist groups in the Middle East.
The policy has prompted the administration to support Islamist groups in several countries, including Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Tunisia and Libya.
But Islamist parties such as the multinational Muslim Brotherhood, have close personal and ideological ties to jihadi groups.
For example, al-Qaida is now led by an Egyptian, Ayman Al-Zawahari. On Sept. 11, his brother led a protest at the U.S Embassy in Cairo. The protesters rioted, burned the embassy’s flag and hoisted the black jihadi flag on the embassy’s wall, while the government’s police declined to intervene.
Zawahiri’s brother was jailed by Egypt’s former government, and was released by the new administration-backed Islamist government.
Numerous reports say the attack on the Benghazi facility was led by a Libyan affiliate of the multinational al-Qaida group.
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