
by Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com
Today, the White House finally revealed its policy on embassy security: keep President Obama out of the loop so he can claim plausible deniability and blame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for any problems. In today’s White House press conference, a reporter asked press secretary Jay Carney about the situation in Libya. Carney responded:
The President wants to get to the bottom
of what happened. Your own network interviewed the President and asked
him about the situation in Benghazi, so I would refer to what the
President said.
He is committed to finding out what
happened. He is committed to making sure that those who killed four
Americans are brought to justice, and he is committed to ensuring that
actions are taken after the Accountability Review Board thoroughly
assesses this matter, to make sure that what happened in Benghazi never
happens again. …. He's not blaming it on anything. This is under
review, it is under investigation. And I would encourage everyone to
assess that review when it's completed.
Q I want to follow on Ann’s question. She
asked if the President was upset when he learned that he had not been
told about these requests for extra security and that kind of thing. Has
he now asked to be informed about such security requests? Or has he
given any instructions that they should not be turned down, or that he
or his designate should be informed?
CARNEY: It is absolutely the case the
President is intensely focused on and committed to bringing to justice
those who killed four Americans. He is focused on the investigations
continuing so that they can follow the facts all the way to the end so
we know what happened and why. He is committed to ensuring that we take
the appropriate actions after the Accountability Review Board to ensure
that what happened in Benghazi does not happen again. What is
also the case is that requests from the hundreds of diplomatic
facilities around the country for security personnel or other related
matters are made to the State Department. They are not made to the White
House. And that’s just a simple statement of fact.

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