Associated Press reporter Julie Pace told the Special Report panel on Fox News that his clipped response when asked about Benghazi Friday showed his discomfort with the topic that has beleaguered his administration for nearly a year.
Fox News correspondent Ed Henry asked Obama about his promise to hold the attackers responsible for the Benghazi terrorist attack last September:
BRET BAIER: Julie, Ed Henry asked about Benghazi and the president September 12th of last year saying that those responsible will be brought to justice. Take a listen to his answer.
OBAMA: I also said that we'd get bin Laden and i didn't get him in 11 months. So we have informed, I think, the public that there's a sealed indictment. It's sealed for a reason, but we are intend on capturing those who carried out this attack, and we're going to stay on it until we get him. This remain a top priority for us.
BAIER: A top priority. Julie, back story there or thoughts on that answer?
PACE: I think that no one wants to capture the people responsible for the attack in Benghazi more than the white house, if for no other reason than it may put an end to the questions of why they haven't been able to capture any of these people, and hopefully from their point of view put an end to some of the questions about who was responsible and what actually happened that night. I think, though, that it was very interesting to just listen to the president's words and listen to his body language, watch his body language. Often when he answers questions in these press conferences, he's very expansive in his answers. When he answered that question on Benghazi, it was a very short, tight, concise answer. Clearly something he didn't want to necessarily be talking about today.