Jen Psaki, traveling press secretary for the Obama campaign, said that President Obama does not view the deadly attacks in Libya and the investigation into what happened as “political” and wants to get to the bottom of what happened on Sept. 11, 2012, during an appearance on CNN’s “Starting Point” Wednesday.
“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have been out there making outrageous political accusations as well,” Psaki said. “The fact is, to the president and to the administration, this is not a political issue. No one wants to get to the bottom of this more than the president…The fact is, we’re providing information – not even me, I don’t even work in the administration anymore – but the administration is providing information they had access to at the time. And the intelligence community has come out and said that this was an organized act of terrorism. But for us, it’s not political. For the President, it’s not political. And it’s unfortunate it’s being brought to that.”
On Tuesday, senior State Department officials gave a detailed account of the attacks in Benghazi that contradict the initial information provided by the Obama administration.
