Comments on: The AUMF and The Road Not Taken. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/the_aumf_and_th.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Maryland Conservatarian http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/the_aumf_and_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-58065 Maryland Conservatarian Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:25:39 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/07/the-aumf-and-the-road-not-taken.html#comment-58065 "...would have authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate military force even within the United States in order to prevent future attacks." yeah I had a similar reaction (I mean my eyebrows wouldn't come down for a week)when I read that previously, military forces had also been deployed to DC and Gettysburg and countless other locations with a similar mandate. Thanks for calling this to our attention. It is important that we all remember that once the enemy crosses our shorelines, they then become simply a criminl enforcement problem...and thus worthy and deserving of the full support of the ACLU and other like-minded groups. “…would have authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate military force even within the United States in order to prevent future attacks.”

yeah I had a similar reaction (I mean my eyebrows wouldn’t come down for a week)when I read that previously, military forces had also been deployed to DC and Gettysburg and countless other locations with a similar mandate.

Thanks for calling this to our attention. It is important that we all remember that once the enemy crosses our shorelines, they then become simply a criminl enforcement problem…and thus worthy and deserving of the full support of the ACLU and other like-minded groups.

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]]> By: Ryan Walters http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/07/the_aumf_and_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-58063 Ryan Walters Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:46:05 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/07/the-aumf-and-the-road-not-taken.html#comment-58063 It seems to me that the administration has argued that <em>is</em> the road Congress took when it passed the AUMF. The text that passed Congress didn't specifically limit the administration to pursuing al Qaeda outside the United States. If you read the text alone, administration lawyers have a decent argument that AUMF justified wiretapping, albeit one <em>Hamdan</em> just evisicerated. It seems to me that the administration has argued that is the road Congress took when it passed the AUMF. The text that passed Congress didn’t specifically limit the administration to pursuing al Qaeda outside the United States. If you read the text alone, administration lawyers have a decent argument that AUMF justified wiretapping, albeit one Hamdan just evisicerated.

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