Mistakes can be forgiven but covering them up, especially when your excuse changes from day to day, points to a much larger problem:
Michael Hayden, former CIA director, and Michael Chertoff, who served as Homeland Security chief, hit out after Biden stunned many in the intelligence community by insisting that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi did not ask for additional security before it was attacked on September 11 – directly contradicting what security officials and diplomats have testified under oath.
The tough joint statement was issued via the Romney campaign. In it they added: ‘Blaming those who put their lives on the line is not the kind of leadership this country needs.’
‘During the Vice Presidential debate, we were disappointed to see Vice President Biden blame the intelligence community for the inconsistent and shifting response of the Obama Administration to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi,’ they said in the statement.
‘Given what has emerged publicly about the intelligence available before, during, and after the September 11 attack, it is clear that any failure was not on the part of the intelligence community, but on the part of White House decision-makers who should have listened to, and acted on, available intelligence. Blaming those who put their lives on the line is not the kind of leadership this country needs.’
There may be layers of failure contributing to this incident but the response from the White House is appalling. It’s not just that they have demonstrated the wrong kind of leadership. They haven’t demonstrated any leadership at all. And then there are the hints (I’m being generous) of ethical and moral failings permeating the entire affair. That is not forgivable.
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@BlogsofWar They either knew what they were doing and chose wrongly or they didn’t know what they were doing and did wrongly.Which is worse?
Joe #Biden photoshop from the Hayden/Chertoff story – http://t.co/i7t5iifH http://t.co/6yTyu2Vq
RT @BlogsofWar: Joe #Biden photoshop from the Hayden/Chertoff story – http://t.co/i7t5iifH http://t.co/6yTyu2Vq
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@BlogsofWar But Chertoff made millions with the toxic,X-ray, nudie screening machines at airports!
Not that a Democrat caught lying is news, but here are a few real beauts by Joe Biden in the VP debate:
- Contrary to his claims that he didn’t, Biden DID VOTE FOR THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN — once on September 14, 2001 to authorize the use of armed force against Afghanistan and again on October 11, 2002, when he voted for the use of unilateral military action against Iraq.
http://freebeacon.com/biden-claims-he-voted-against-afghanistan-iraq-wars/
- Biden tried to blame the lack of security in Benghazi on Republican budget cuts. WHAT BUDGET CUTS? The Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t passed a budget in over 1,200 days, so Congress hasn’t been able to pass a budget. Therefore, government is being funded by a CONTINUING RESOLUTION! While cuts may be coming — they haven’t come yet! In fact, the State Department had enough money –$47,500 — to buy a Chevy Volt for the U.S. Embassy in Norway!
http://nlpc.org/cached/embassies-facing-security-cuts-waste-money-chevy-volts.html?q=stories/2012/10/02/embassies-facing-security-cuts-waste-money-chevy-volts
- Biden continued to claim Obamacare would save money for seniors. WRONG AGAIN! See the Fox News/AP article on the congressional testimony of Medicare Chief Actuary Richard S. Foster.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/26/medicare-actuary-doubts-health-care-law-hold-costs/#ixzz2980LJSul
- Biden tried to throw the intelligence community under the bus for his and Obama’s failure to know what was going on in Benghazi — WRONG AGAIN! Former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have issued a joint statement saying the failure was on the part of WHITE HOUSE DECISION-MAKERS!
http://blogsofwar.com/2012/10/12/hayden-and-chertoff-blast-the-obama-administration-on-benghazi/
RT @BlogsofWar: Joe #Biden photoshop from the Hayden/Chertoff story – http://t.co/i7t5iifH http://t.co/6yTyu2Vq
@BlogsofWar Bush had bad intel. Look where that ended up.