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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
There was no Declaration of War, but rather two separate Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) ...one the week after 9/11 to invade Afghanistan in pursuit of al Queda and one, 13 months later, to invade Iraq, sold in large part, on misinformation, cherrypicked information and information withheld from Congress.
In any case, an AUMF authorizes a president to use the Armed Forces of the United States.....
It does not give a president the authorization to direct the NSA to wiretap citizens w/o warrant as Bush attempted to claim.
It does not give a president the authorization to direct the CIA to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" that are recognized in international treaties as torture, as Bush attempted to claim.
The CIA and NSA are NOT part of the Armed Forces of the United States.
And it does not give a president the authority to ignore the Uniform Code of Military Justice or Geneva Conventions as applied to the rights of detainees....as Bush attempted to claim and the USSC overuled on three separate occasions.
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Thank you for that clarification and summarization. It made it really easy for me to understand all the points that I had wrong.
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