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The US attack on Syria is completely legal and utterly moral.

Here�s what Trump�s critics need to know

President Trump�s calibrated and courageous decision to join France and Britain in striking

chemical weapons targets in Syria before dawn Saturday drew support and opposition from

members of Congress.

Opponents have argued he should have sought congressional authorization for the military

action in Syria.

They are wrong.

President Trump�s action to attack Syria was exceptionally well-grounded legally.

Self-evident moral authority supports using any reasonable means to protect innocents

from the moral outrage of chemical weapons.

Ahead of the attack, Vice President Mike Pence personally notified House Speaker Paul Ryan,

R-Wis.; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch

McConnell, R-Ky.

He could not reach Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

He confirmed the limited nature, objectives and duration of the Syrian strike.

As Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other U.S. officials made clear, America and our

allies mounted a �one-off� attack to deter any future use of chemical weapons by Syria,

a prerogative fully supported by international law.President Trump�s thoughtful, well-planned,

narrowly drawn and superbly executed strike on Syrian chemical weapons facilities wasted

no time, ordnance or lives.

Its purpose was clear, well-stated and well-served.

It should be non-controversial.

Still, he is attacked.

Neither President Trump nor anyone in his administration has suggested the onset of

a long American military combat commitment in Syria.

But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reaffirmed America�s resolve

to prevent any further use of chemical weapons.

She said Saturday at the U.N.: �I spoke to the president this morning, and he said,

�If the Syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the United States is locked and

loaded.��

Nevertheless, leading Democrats have been vocal in demanding congressional approval

for any U.S. military involvement in Syria.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2016, was quick to tweet:

�Trump�s decision to launch airstrikes against Syria without Congress� approval

is illegal.

We need to stop giving presidents a blank check to wage war.

Today it�s Syria, but what�s going to stop him from bombing Iran or North Korea

next?�Kaine�s tweet is legally inept, and all but laughable, given that President

Bill Clinton � husband of Kaine�s 2016 running mate, Hillary Clinton � undertook

a long series of air strikes in Kosovo and elsewhere, without any congressional authorization

or pretense to getting it.

Let�s cut to the nub: The 1973 War Powers Resolution was intended to dissuade presidents

from long-duration combat engagements and insertion of large numbers of U.S. troops.

The law grew out of a decade of U.S. combat in Vietnam.

It presumes to require that presidents get congressional approval for military combat

operations if they last more than 60 days.

Most legal scholars consider parts of the law unconstitutional.

Presidents of both parties have generally demurred.

No president has acceded to the law�s constitutionality.

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Comey reportedly wishes he'd found 'better way' to describe Clinton's email use - Duration: 2:45.

Comey reportedly wishes he'd found 'better way' to describe Clinton's email use

Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly says in his upcoming book that, given another

chance, he would try to avoid calling Hillary Clinton�s handling of classified information

as secretary of state �extremely careless.� According to Axios, Comey writes in "A Higher

Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership" that there are things he wishes he had done differently

in announcing that the FBI was not recommending charges in its probe of Clinton�s use of

a private email server.

At the July 5, 2016, press conference, with a presidential election just months away,

Comey gave a lengthy statement criticizing Clinton but ultimately explaining the FBI�s

reasoning for not recommending charges.

�Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended

to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence

that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified

information,� he said at the time.

But in �A Higher Loyalty,� Comey says the wording -- which clung to Clinton throughout

her doomed campaign -- is one of the things he would change, along with waiting until

the end of his remarks to say he was not recommending charges.

"[I]f I had it to do over again, I would do some things differently.

I would avoid the 'Seacresting' mistake by saying at the beginning of my statement that

we weren�t recommending charges,� he said according to Axios.

�More important, I would have tried to find a better way to describe Secretary Clinton�s

conduct than 'extremely careless.'"

It is not clear from the extract whether he would use softer or stronger language to describe

Clinton�s behavior.

In the extracts, Comey also says he intentionally wore a gold tie so he wasn�t displaying

the red or blue colors of the respective political parties.

He also says that he wouldn�t have changed his broader conduct, �but I can imagine

good and principled people in my shows making different choices about some things.�

COMEY HINTS AT DAMAGING MATERIAL INVOLVING EX-AG LYNCH 'STILL UNKNOWN TO THE AMERICAN

PUBLIC'

On Friday, ABC News reported that Comey says he became the public face of the investigation

partly because of a �development still unknown to the American public� which he felt could

raise questions about then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch's independence.

�Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political

opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general�s independence in connection with

the Clinton investigation,� Comey writes, according to ABC.

He calls the material a �development still unknown to the American public to this day.�

"A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership� is due to be released on Tuesday.