Joe Biden sets himself apart from Hillary Clinton in speech as U.S. waits to see if he’ll run for President

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden hasn’t entered the White House race, but that didn’t stop him Tuesday from bolstering his involvement in the decision to take out Osama Bin Laden and contradicting Hillary Clinton’s version. Biden used his time on a panel with former Vice President Walter Mondale to rebuke Clinton’s account of the raid that killed the terror big, disputing claims he opposed it and suggesting the Democratic front-runner wasn’t as adamantly in favor as she claims. The vice president, who is expected to make a decision on a White House run in the coming days, said he knew about Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound months before most of the cabinet, and claimed Clinton, then the secretary of state, wasn’t 100% firm on going after the terrorist leader. That contradicts Clinton’s version — and changes his own account by adding that he had intentionally avoided taking a stand while meeting with the cabinet before privately backing it so he wouldn’t undercut Obama’s decision. Biden said then-CIA Director Leon Panetta was the only person in the room who unequivocally supported the raid. The vice president claimed that he personally supported a “third option” of more surveillance in the meeting before privately telling… Read full this story

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