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  • Calculated Candor Inside Obama’s Off-the-Record Briefings

    01/04/2016 2:47:07 AM PST · by detective · 4 replies
    New York Times ^ | JAN. 3, 2016 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR
    Hours after President Obama announced in a 2014 speech that he was escalating his campaign against Islamic extremists, a number of prominent columnists suggested they knew exactly what he was thinking. Michael Tomasky, a correspondent for The Daily Beast, wrote that "Obama clearly feels he has the constitutional authority to go after ISIS anywhere and everywhere." Gerald F. Seib, the Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was equally certain about what "the president calculated."