As he inches closer to deciding whether he’ll enter the 2016 race, Vice President Joe Biden provided new details today on the deliberations over the Osama bin Laden raid, seemingly revising his position on one of the most important decisions of the Obama administration. 
 
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 Speaking at a forum honoring former Vice President Walter Mondale, Biden said he privately advised the president to go forward with the 2011 raid, a decision he previously has said he opposed. 
 
 During the forum, Biden recounted the national security meeting the president held to decide whether to conduct the raid. 
 
 In that meeting, Biden had suggested more surveillance was needed before a raid was launched, but today Biden said he told the president privately that he supported the raid after the meeting concluded. 
 
 “As we walked out of the room and we walked upstairs, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go but to follow his own instincts,” Biden said. “But it would have been a mistake, imagine if I had said in front of everyone, 'don't go, or go,' and his decision was a different decision. It undercuts that relationship so I never on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up in the Oval with him alone.” 
 
 This tracks differently from how the vice president described the decision in years past when he publicly admitted he opposed the raid that resulted in the al Qaeda founder's death. 
 
 "He got to me. He said, 'Joe, what do you think?' And I said, 'You know, I didn't know we had so many economists around the table.' I said, 'We owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, don't go. We have to do two more things to see if he's there," Biden recalled in 2012. 
 
 Biden lauded the president’s final decision, saying, “He knew what was at stake, not just the lives of those brave warriors, but literally the presidency.” 
 
 Biden’s potential 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton wrote about Biden’s skepticism of the raid in her book, “Hard Choices.” In last week’s debate, Clinton talked about the raid as she touted her role advising the president. 
 
 “I think while you're talking about the tough decision that President Obama had to make about Osama bin Laden, where I was one of his few advisers,” she said. 
 
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 William M. Daley, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff at the time and was present in the Situation Room when the Abbottabad raid was discussed, said shortly after Tuesday’s forum that the meeting occurred as Mr. Biden described it. 
 
 The description of the meeting about the Abbottabad raid was one of several moments when Mr. Biden seemed to take swipes, at least indirectly, at Mrs. Clinton. He did not mention Mrs. Clinton as among those who had definitively supported the Abbottabad raid, although she and Mr. Daley said she had been. In a wide-ranging conversation with former Vice President Walter F. Mondale about his vice presidency, Mr. Biden mentioned that he had flown more than one million miles to speak to world leaders. 
 
 “We’ve had two great secretaries of state,” he said, “but when I go, they know that I am speaking for the president. There is nothing missed between the lip and the cup. Whatever I say, the president is saying.” 
 
 At another point in the discussion, Mr. Biden mentioned that he was the administration’s primary interlocutor with Capitol Hill. 
 
 “And I still have a lot of Republican friends,” Mr. Biden said, adding for the second time in two days, “I don’t think my chief enemy there is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work.” Later, at another event honoring the 87-year-old Mr. Mondale on Tuesday night, Mr. Biden went even further, calling it "naïve" to think that the country can be governed without bipartisan cooperation. 
 
 In last week’s Democratic debate, Mrs. Clinton was asked which enemies she is most proud of making. 
 
 “Well, in addition to the N.R.A., the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians,” she responded to laughter, “probably the Republicans.” 
 
 Mr. Biden’s subtle digs could presage the kind of negative primary campaign that has so far largely been confined to the Republican side. Even if he does not enter the race, the vice president’s comments suggested that he is unhappy with Mrs. Clinton and unlikely to get behind his former Senate and administration colleague any time soon. Either possibility — testy rival or sideline critic — is not pretty for Democrats and particularly Obama loyalists.
– Joe Biden has long claimed he never advised President Obama to go through with the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. It's a claim he's now changing—or at least slightly tweaking—as he possibly prepares to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, CNN reports. During a cabinet meeting prior to the raid, Biden urged caution and advocated for further intelligence gathering. He now says that wasn't the end of the story. “As we walked out of the room and went upstairs, I told [Obama] my opinion, that I said that I thought he should go but to follow his own instincts,” the New York Times quotes Biden during an event Tuesday. At the event, Biden said he only offered his opinion on controversial issues while alone with Obama in order to present a united front to the cabinet, the Times reports. In addition to contradicting himself, Biden contradicted Clinton Tuesday, saying only former CIA director Leon Panetta was unequivocally in favor of the raid, according to CNN. In her book, Clinton claims she immediately supported the raid. It's a topic she brought up during last week's debate, ABC News reports. “I think while you're talking about the tough decision that President Obama had to make about Osama bin Laden, where I was one of his few advisers,” she said.