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Congress probably allowed the bombings in some overly large bill that gave expansive power to the administration to interpret threats to the US as it sees fit.
by gadflyinyoureye 2y ago
Congress probably allowed the bombings in some overly large bill that gave expansive power to the administration to interpret threats to the US as it sees fit. The war equivalent of the Chevron ruling.
- alabastervlog 2y agoPresidents still have insanely-extensive authority granted by the AUMF from the original batch of "Global War on Terror" (barf) bills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit... Remember when a bunch of people were complaining that tons of that legislation was dangerous crap that handed way too much power to the executive? Yeah, they were 100% right.