The authorization for use of military force was passed all but unanimously by congress on september eighteenth, two thousand one. The most specific language there is in the a u m f is about who gets to decide. This transforms the presidency and represents the culm nation of a right wing legal theorization of the presidency,.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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