In the mid-2011 and early 2012, Biden recounted how he advised Obama during a national security strategy meeting in April 2011 to wait for further confirmation that bin Laden was actually in the compound in Pakistan before acting. In his initial recounting of the events leading up to bin Laden’s death on May 2, 2011, Biden portrayed Obama as a decisive leader who decided to move forward with the daring raid over the vice president’s advice. We wouldn’t go that far, but Biden wasn’t giving the whole story. The Republican National Committee immediately called it “an instance of Biden flat out lying.” Questioned by a Fox News reporter, former Vice President Joe Biden denied that he told then-President Barack Obama “not to go after bin Laden” in what turned out to be a successful mission to kill the 9/11 mastermind.
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