White House Not Interested in Talking to Press About Syria

Not even Jay Carney

Even as President Obama prepares to commit an act of war in Syria, the White House has scaled back the public questioning it will tolerate about what the president is doing, holding only one televised briefing in the past seven days to justify the president's position to the American people.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has all but disappeared, briefing reporters in any forum – televised or not – only once since holding an off-camera "gaggle" aboard Air Force One August 10. Instead, he's left the job to Principle Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.