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Friday, June 17, 2011

When Barack doesn't want to call a war a war, he goddam well GETS HIS WAY...!

jeebus... i thought george bush was done and gone... guess not...
Obama Rejects 2 Top Lawyers’ Views on War Power in Libya

President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.

Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, had told the White House that they believed that the United States military’s activities in the NATO-led air war amounted to “hostilities.” Under the War Powers Resolution, that would have required Mr. Obama to terminate or scale back the mission after May 20.

But Mr. Obama decided instead to adopt the legal analysis of several other senior members of his legal team — including the White House counsel, Robert Bauer, and the State Department legal adviser, Harold H. Koh — who argued that the United States military’s activities fell short of “hostilities.” Under that view, Mr. Obama needed no permission from Congress to continue the mission unchanged.

you never know exactly what you're gonna see when someone finally fully emerges from the closet... sometimes what you see is lovely and sometimes it's truly horrifying... speaking for myself, i'm well and truly horrified...!

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