Hillary Clinton: I backed Osama bin Laden raid, Joe Biden didn't
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday took some indirect swipes at Vice President Joe Biden at an off-the-record gathering, a state representative in attendance told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"I know she's running for president now, because toward the end, she was asked about the Osama bin Laden raid. She took 25 minutes to answer," George State Rep. Tom Taylor told the newspaper. "Without turning the knife too deeply, she put it to [Vice President Joe] Biden."
Clinton, a top potential 2016 contender, addressed the National Association of Convenience Stores in Atlanta on Tuesday, where "social media, photography, recording, writing about and/or videotaping" was prohibited, according to guidance released a day earlier.
She was asked about bin Laden at that event as well, and in her telling, the attendee said, "She and the CIA director were for the attack, and Biden and the secretary of defense were against the attack."How arrogant is Hillary Clinton? She feels entitled to give speeches and then absolutely control the dissemination of those speeches.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is riding a compelling Hillary Rodham Clinton story. It’s not so much about her quite-possible presidential run.
Nor is it about the Clinton family’s foundation. Nor Benghazi. It's about how Clinton is attempting the impossible: Turning a speech into something approaching an off-the-record occasion.
This morning, the former secretary of state was in Atlanta for a speaking engagement before the National Association of Convenience and Fuel Retailing (NACS). As the AJC reported yesterday, members of the media were barred from the session.
Today it reported that a "cone of silence" had descended on her remarks. "Convention officials banned all video and sound recording, social media, and naturally, journalists," wrote the AJC's Greg Bluestein and Jim Galloway.
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