The reason, according to reporters Michael Isikoff and David Korn: Armitage did not want to give the White House a pretext for placing the blame where it belonged - with the disloyal denizens of the State Department's seventh floor.
No, for real blame, where you'll find the purest form of greed and all that, look no further than the investment banks.
She said, although sympathetic to the families' position, she did not want the inquest to become "a witch-hunt" where blame was cast.
This was not a fire where blame was easy.
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"The Gulf of Mexico explosion was a terrible tragedy for which--as the man in charge of BP when it happened--I will always feel a deep responsibility, regardless of where blame is ultimately found to lie, " Hayward said.
At this point, it is too early to speculate where the blame appropriately lies.
Gone are the days where you blame everyone else for your dating woes.
That's where the blame lies - at the door of our woeful welfare system, and the last government who comprehensively failed to reform it.
So is anyone, especially spouses, to blame for wanting to know where all the clues lead?
My view on where to place blame is summarized in an OpEd ( Our Gridlocked Grid) my colleague and I wrote for another New York newspaper.
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If there ever was enough blame to go around for where we are in that regard, that's the area of what's happened to our intelligence over the last many years.
As I understand it, one reason why RBS has not given much detailed information about why its services have been so badly disrupted is that so much of the operational responsibility for IT is outsourced - so there is a sensitive issue of where to attribute blame.
But the truth is, no one really knows where to lay the blame for these figures.
In fact immediately after Sandy struck, Al lost no time figuring out where to place the blame.
Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad.
While labor strife isn't necessarily a sign of financial turmoil, labor peace is often a leading indicator of stability, at least in sports, where struggling owners often blame their woes on player salaries and try to organize attempts to roll back compensation.
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Where one may want to blame the government or baby boomers or technology, I think the issue transcends sheer economic factors.
To see where Mr Blair believes the blame for Britain's failures really lies, it is necessary to forget the orator on the telly and read the text of the speech.
The issue is not whether some individuals are held accountable where appropriate but rather whether this done in a spirit of blame and fear as in traditional management, or whether it is about creating a setting where small teams can contribute with all their talents and creativity.
Carrie and her cohorts are partly to blame too, as well that beer commercial where a woman shows off her shoe closet to her friends.
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Where to direct the anger and the blame is a more difficult matter.
This amounts to a deflection strategy, where Obama is attempting to direct the blame off himself and onto Congress.
Earlier, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh said the Swiss couple were partly to blame - because they had not told the authorities where they were going.
In Italy, meanwhile, where police have foiled a number of attacks they blame on al-Qaeda, the courts have convicted people for what the authorities say were al-Qaeda related activities.
Where there is inaction, institutional investors bear part of the blame.
We can blame the Republicans for obstructionism when we do not lower rates on the middle class back to where they were.
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