The Press Corpse had a few more questions but Jay skeedaddled with all deliberate speed.
Reuters:
As the briefing ends, Carney references this NYT article by Charlie Savage outlining the position of the White House and its legal counsel on the legality of striking Syria:
... [T]he proposed strike is unlike anything that has come before — an attack inside the territory of a sovereign country, without its consent, without a self-defense rationale and without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council or even the participation of a multilateral treaty alliance like NATO, and for the purpose of punishing an alleged war crime that has already occurred rather than preventing an imminent disaster.
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Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, said the president believed a strike would be lawful, both in international law and domestic law, even if neither the Security Council nor Congress approved it. But the novel circumstances, she said, led Mr. Obama to seek Congressional concurrence to bolster its legitimacy.
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Hillary up.