{"id":16167,"date":"2012-10-15T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16167"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:27:58","slug":"clinton-lawyers-up-after-white-house-lays-blame-for-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16167\/clinton-lawyers-up-after-white-house-lays-blame-for-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Lawyers Up After White House Lays Blame for Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/330397\/october-surprise-may-be-libya-john-fund \" target=\"_blank\">John Fund<\/a> says that the White House blame-shifting for the Libya fiasco is causing a rift inside the Administration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama officials may have made a key mistake when, in their panic, they attempted to lay blame for the Libyan fiasco solely on others. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that responsibility for Libya lay with the State Department, not the White House. Ed Klein, a former <em>New York Times<\/em> editor who has authored recent biographies of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, says his sources tell him that Bill Clinton is already pulling together an informal legal team to create a defense in case Obama officials continue to point the finger in Hillary\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she is left with this stain on her reputation, it could seriously damage her chances for election\u201d as president in 2016, Klein told the <em>Daily Caller<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, after four years as a loyal Secretary of State, THIS is how Hillary Clinton gets rewarded by the man who beat her in the 2008 Democratic primaries?<\/p>\n<p>Bill must be fuming.\u00a0 Barack should beware a Bubba-eruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fund says that the White House blame-shifting for the Libya fiasco is causing a rift inside the Administration: Obama officials may have made a key mistake when, in their panic, they attempted to lay blame for the Libyan fiasco solely on others. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that responsibility for Libya lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,3887,143,501,118,2436],"class_list":["post-16167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-3887","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16171,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions\/16171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}