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Hillary Clinton: I Backed Bin Laden Raid

off the record

And Vice President Joe Biden didn't.

Frenemies much? At an off-the-record gathering on Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answered a question about the raid on Osama bin Laden by saying she supported the operation—and Joe Biden didn't. According to a Republican state representative who was there, "Without turning the knife too deeply, she put it to [Vice President Joe] Biden." The representative, Tom Taylor of Georgia, said that Clinton depicted herself and former CIA director Leon Panetta as supporters of the raid and Biden as an opponent. Both Biden and Clinton are considered top 2016 potential presidential nominees.

Read it at Politico