Evidently fearful that it was was politically vulnerable, the Obama Administration moved to distance itself—a pretty disreputable move, given what its diplomats had just gone through. “The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” an Administration official told Byron Tau, a reporter for Politico, who promptly posted a story headlined, “Obama administration disavows Cairo apology.” (The embassy statement was not actually an apology, but that had been lost, too.)

It has been lost in the media firestorm that the Obama administration threw under the bus the people whose lives were just violently threatened.

Why didn’t he defend them instead of caving to these phony “apology” accusations?

(Source: newyorker.com)