Biden: Hey, none of us knew that the Benghazi consulate wanted more security!

Hot Air ^ | 10:01 am on October 12, 2012 | Ed Morrissey

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Biden: Hey, none of us knew that the Benghazi consulate wanted more security! Update: CBS News: Biden’s got some clean-up to do on Libya; Update: White House: No, really, we had no idea

This was easily the most disturbing moment of the entire debate — so much so that media outlets like the Washington Post and BuzzFeed immediately published rebuttals to Joe Biden’s claim at the end of the debate. When Martha Raddatz opened the event by talking about Libya, Paul Ryan hammered the Obama administration for not heeding the calls for better security in an area where everyone knew that al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist terror networks had grown significantly since Obama and NATO decapitated the Qaddafi regime. Biden’s defense? Claim ignorance:

During the vice presidential debate Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden said the administration “did not know” that personnel working at the American embassy in Libya had requested more security before the deadly attack on Sept. 11.

As Biden was discussing the attack, Martha Raddatz, the debate moderator, cut in.

“And they wanted more security there,” Raddatz said.

“But we weren’t told they wanted more security there,” Biden responded. “We did not know they wanted more security there.”

That assertion runs counter to evidence and testimonies that were presented at aHouse Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, where the committee released five memos requesting additional security, and witnesses from the State Department confirmed that those requests had been denied.

[shelterguy]

“””“But we weren’t told they wanted more security there,” Biden responded. “We did not know they wanted more security there.””””

Maybe if you ever showed up for your daily briefings....
Just sayin’.

[SkyDancer]

[FlingWingFlyer]

"When things go badly, point your finger and blame somebody else." - old commie DemocRAT saying.

"The buck never got here." - Another old commie 'RAT saying.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice catch....

Two short videos at the Hot Air link.

Second one from CBS News’ Jan Crawford reported that Biden “may have some clean up of his own to do today on Libya”:

[N. Theknow]

Like claiming you did not notice a woman 9 months pregnant.

And on 9-11, still no idea, no precautions?

Do these clowns wake up on 12-25 and wonder about the tree and presents as well?

[Elle Bee]

Joe Biden's Gaffes Call For A Thorough Neurological Examination ~ Forbes

Henry I. Miller, a physician, and the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution,ASKS:

Don’t voters have a right to know whether Biden is ill or merely unlikeable, impulsive and prone to deceitfulness?

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[Spok]

Apparently the “intelligence community” lies to Obama re: the cause of the attack in Benghazi, and the state department doesn’t tell obama anything. Don’t these excuses, even if believed, fairly wreak of incompetence and a complete failure in leadership?

[popdonnelly]

The smile with a body behind it.

[drypowder]

none of us knew that the Benghazi consulate wanted more security!

pleading ignorance in this case ain't cutting it Biden, you lying, effing sack of human excrement. you and your boss should be the ones in chains.