Biden shouted down Ryan last night with the help of the debate moderator, but in doing so, he may have caused problems in the aftermath of the rape/murder of the US ambassador to Libya and the Obama administration coverup of their attempt to make Libya appear to be normalized, despite much violence, by leaving the embassy virtually unguarded.
During Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, VP Joe Biden adopted two tactics that are likely to come back to haunt both him and President Obama. When questioned about Libya, rather than take any responsibility for that deadly attack, Biden threw an agency and a community under the bus.
Regarding the lack of security at the consulate in Benghazi, Biden said that the administration just didn’t know that security officers on the ground had requested more security. The State Department says otherwise:
“We weren’t told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there,” Biden said.
“All of us at post were in sync that we wanted these resources,” the top regional security officer in Libya over the summer, Eric Nordstrom, testified. “In those conversations, I was specifically told [by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb] ‘You cannot request an SST extension.’ I determined I was told that because there would be too much political cost. We went ahead and requested it anyway.”
In fact, two security officials who worked for the State Department in Libya at the time testified Thursday that they repeatedly requested more security and two State Department officials admitted they had denied those requests.Nordstrom was so critical of the State Department’s reluctance to respond to his calls for more security that he said, “For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the building.”
Biden also called out the intelligence community, arguing that administration officials told the nation that the Benghazi assault resulted from a protest because that’s what the intelligence community told them.
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