His surrogates have denied he ordered it. Now what?
However, the political fallout will still be enormous, because as a practical matter 0bama can deny ordering it all he likes but it's his administration.
When Henry II asks, "What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?" Everybody knows he is not musing idly, but asking his droogs to go out and kill Thomas a Becket, and history has not forgotten.