04-16-2018, 04:39 PM
(04-16-2018, 04:35 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Was there contact with the Congressional committees prior to?
If it is a situation where the Exec Branch just unilaterally decided to lob some missiles (outside of nuclear attack, of course), then that could be a big problem.
Contact with committees isn't specific statutory authority. We're talking an AUMF. The, what is it, gang of 8, would have been notified, but that is just letting them know. That is still the Executive acting unilaterally. This is the way it has been for a while, now.
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