Cameras Barred from Biden's Speech to AFL-CIO

So much for transparency, but who's messing with Joe?

Cameras have been banned from Vice President Biden's address to AFL-CIO leaders in Miami Thursday.

The vice president's office said Thursday it is honoring the wishes of the union to have press cameras barred.

"Traditionally, the AFL-CIO Executive Council meetings are closed press. Each of its sessions this week have been closed press," spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement.

The AFL-CIO acknowledged Thursday that it was its choice to ban cameras after telling FOX News a day earlier it was the vice president's decision. Alexander said the veep tried to change the rule but was denied.

"As part of its unprecedented commitment to transparency, Vice President Biden's office asked that a change to the policy be made so that a pool of print reporters would be allowed to cover the speech and a full transcript of the vice president's remarks will be sent out this afternoon."