Osama Bin Laden Raid May Be an Issue in a Joe Biden-Hillary Clinton Contest

[KoKo]

Osama Bin Laden Raid May Be an Issue in a Joe Biden-Hillary Clinton Contest

Politics Newsletter:

With Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. deliberating on whether he will run for president, some of the differences between him and Hillary Rodham Clinton Clinton are sure to come into a sharper focus.

And even before this latest round of Biden buzz, Mrs. Clinton brought up one of those distinctions.

In an interview with the South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, Jaime Harrison, taped late last month, Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state recalled the internal Obama administration debate over the mission to capture Osama bin Laden.

“I was one who recommended to the president that he go ahead,” Mrs. Clinton recalled.

Then she added: “And his advisers were split because it was a very risky operation to send in the Navy SEALs, to fly through Pakistani airspace, to land in a settled populated neighborhood and to take out the gunmen who were guarding bin Laden and either capture or kill bin Laden himself.”

One of those Obama officials uneasy about the raid: Mr. Biden.

In Mr. Biden’s telling, every Obama adviser had qualms about the raid except Leon Panetta, the C.I.A. director at the time.

It is not the first time Mrs. Clinton has raised the administration’s divide over bin Laden. She did so in paid speeches in the months after leaving the State Department. But such comments will now be received in a different light.

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[Gothmog]

1. Joe Biden is only going to get into the race if Hillary has a bad stumble

[askew]

2. Hillary trying to take credit for someone else's decision.

Big surprise. This was Obama's decision. Hillary doesn't get any credit for it.

[Sheepshank]

3. Obama has never governed in a bubble

He has always asked for input and discussion from his Cabinet. NO ONE, thinks the decision was Hillary's alone. ONLY YOU think that she is trying to take some credit from Obama. But you go ahead a feed the made up narrative.