The night before a House committee hearing on the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Vice President Biden praised Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador who has been under fire for her role in the administration’s response to the incident. Rice has “the absolute, total, complete confidence of the president,” Biden said at a gala for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, according to press reports. “When she speaks… no one wonders whether or not she is speaking for the president.”
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