Obama Decides to Sidestep Anti-coup Law

THE DAILY CALLER: President Barack Obama has formally decided not to decide whether the Egyptian military’s removal of the America-hating Muslim Brotherhood triggers a legal bar against aid to coup plotters.

Obama’s no-decision policy was announced Monday by Josh Earnest, Obama’s principal deputy press secretary.

“We’ve concluded that it is not in the best interest of the United States to reach a determination on a coup,” he said in the daily press conference.

But that decision clashes with the law governing U.S. foreign aid. » | Neil Munro | Tuesday, August 20, 2013