White House Reporters Get Briefed On Syria

White House Reporters Get Briefed On Syria
President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, about policies he will pursue following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct. Obama is tasking Biden, a longtime gun control advocate, with spearheading the effort. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, about policies he will pursue following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct. Obama is tasking Biden, a longtime gun control advocate, with spearheading the effort. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

The White House briefed reporters on Syria's use of chemical weapons on Friday.

The conference call took place shortly after Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up his remarks about Syria. Reporters were briefed by anonymous "senior administration officials," according to Politico's Mike Allen.

BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski said a senior administration official told reporters that Obama has yet to make a decision about military intervention in Syria, and that the president has been given options by the intelligence community and the military. The official, according to CBS News' Mark Knoller, also said that U.S. intelligence has concluded that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is "the decision maker" on Syria's use of chemical weapons.

The briefing, as The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone pointed out, was the latest instance of unnamed White House officials speaking to the press.

Kerry did not take reporter's questions after his remarks at the State Department, as Politico reported would be the case.

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