THE COVER-UP CONTINUES – AT 9:16 A.M. ET:  The Libyan episode is building into a full-blown scandal, and the Romney team should continue to hammer it.  Joe Biden last night flat-out covered up the truth, and it's been picked up by some observers.  From Foreign Policy:

Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the administration wasn't aware of requests for more security in Libya before the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi during Thursday night's debate, contradicting two State Department officials and the former head of diplomatic security in Libya.

"We weren't told they wanted more security. We did not know they wanted more security there," Biden said.

In fact, two security officials who worked for the State Department in Libya at the time testified Thursday that they repeatedly requested more security and two State Department officials admitted they had denied those requests.

"All of us at post were in sync that we wanted these resources," the top regional security officer in Libya over the summer, Eric Nordstrom, testified. "In those conversations, I was specifically told [by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charlene Lamb] ‘You cannot request an SST extension.' I determined I was told that because there would be too much political cost. We went ahead and requested it anyway."

COMMENT:  The administration cannot get out from under this one.  It lied to the American people to protect the president's argument that his foreign policy has succeeded.  It has not.  Obama sent UN Ambassador Susan Rice to TV Sunday talk shows to tell a wildly inaccurate story.  It was disgraceful.

Okay, Romney team, don't let this one go.  I don't think Romney will.

October 12, 2012