National Security

What’s Inside Trump’s Secret War Powers Memo?

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The answer appears to be a strikingly broad legal argument to strike virtually anywhere—without Congressional say-so.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed a senator in a recently-revealed letter that President Trump considers himself to possess inherent constitutional authority to launch military action without any act of Congress, a sweeping assertion that appears to resurrect from the early George W.

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