Biden’s shifting story on his bin Laden raid stance conflicts with Obama’s own telling

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President-elect Joe Biden has offered contradictory accounts of his stance on the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, initially saying he opposed the operation and told President Barack Obama not to do it, but later changing his account to say he hedged in front of others but privately told Obama to go ahead.

Biden’s most recent iteration of the story contradicts Obama’s new memoir.

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