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Jay Carney: “It sounds like the Goldilocks AUMF, right, authorization for the use of military force, which means it basically pleases…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
It sounds like the Goldilocks AUMF, right, authorization for the use of military force, which means it basically pleases almost no one.
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Jay Carney

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Jay Carney critiques the proposed authorization for military force as being too restrictive and not satisfying either party.

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