Will Ryan hit Biden hard on Libya?

So what will Ryan say about President Obama’s recent record on Libya? “The term I would use is ‘unraveling,’ says a member of Team Ryan, referring not just to the Libya affair but to Obama’s larger foreign policy. “I would not at all be surprised if Congressman Ryan uses it.”

But don’t expect Ryan to get into the weeds of what happened in Libya. “I don’t know that it’s worth litigating in detail some of what went wrong in Benghazi,” the aide says, “but it does point to the broader issue of what’s gone wrong with the president’s foreign policy. I don’t think it serves us well to get into a back-and-forth of when this consular officer or that requested more security.”

So don’t look for details from Ryan on the Libyan security situation. But there is also the issue of the administration’s truthfulness, or lack of it, in its statements about the Benghazi violence. “The president seemed reluctant to call it what it was, a terrorist attack on Americans,” says the aide, “and without a reasonable explanation as to why it has taken them so long to admit what people on the ground knew at the time.”