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According to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, President Obama didn't cancel the Keystone XL pipeline - Republicans did.
Carney made the claim on Tuesday, after saying that Republicans "forced" the President to cancel the permit for the pipeline.
"In terms of Keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. And the fact is because Republicans decided to play political with Keystone, their action essentially forced the administration to deny the permit process because they insisted on a time frame in which it was impossible to completely approve the pipeline," he told ABC's Jake Tapper.
"How can you say that you have an all of the above approach if the President turned down the Keystone pipeline? And you blame the Republicans for making it political," Tapper asked.
Carney responded: "But the President didn't turn down the Keystone pipeline. There was a process in place, with long precedent, run out of the State Department because of the issue of the pipeline crossing an international boundary, that required an amount of time for proper for review after an alternate route was deemed necessary through Nebraska at the request of the Republican Governor of Nebraska and other stakeholders in Nebraska and the region that needed to play out, to be done appropriately. You can't review and approve a pipeline, the route for which doesn't even exist."
