https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/11/the-absentee-commander-in-chief/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:51:35 -0400<![CDATA[Why the deception? Presumably for two reasons. The first is that the true account of events undercut the president&#8217;s claim during the campaign that al Qaeda was severely weakened in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The second is that a true account of what happened in Benghazi that night would have revealed that the president and his top national-security advisers did not treat a lethal attack by Islamic terrorists on Americans as a crisis. The commander in chief not only didn&#8217;t convene a meeting in the Situation Room; he didn&#8217;t even bother to call his Defense secretary or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Not a single presidential finger was lifted to help Americans under attack.]]>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:40:26 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/11/the-absentee-commander-in-chief-n280965