expressed support for the president's authority under the existing Authorization for Use of Military Force to go after the militant group formerly known as ISIS -- so long as the U.S. doesn't repeat past mistakes.
He says the existing authorization to use military force can and should be removed at some point.
And that is why I intend to engage Congress about the existing Authorization to Use Military Force, or AUMF, to determine how we can continue to fight terrorists without keeping America on a perpetual war-time footing.
Declaring that the existing authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks includes the power to detain members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban and associated forces.
And that is why I intend to engage Congress about the existing Authorization to Use Military Force, or AUMF, to determine how we can continue to fight terrorism without keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing.
Under Plan B, the Treasury--or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under their existing authorization--would identify categories of mortgages according to levels of default risk and asset coverage, and provide a bid floor for each category pending a workout of the underlying mortgages.
Another open question is whether the Obama administration will seek from the secret Fisa Court another 90-day extension of the bulk domestic phone records dragnet when its existing authorization expires on 11 December.
That language, which would codify into federal law a definition of the enemy that the Obama administration has adopted in defending against lawsuits filed by Guantánamo Bay detainees, would supplant the existing military force authorization that Congress passed overwhelmingly on Sept. 14, 2001.
A State Department spokesperson said that, "In the case of Line 3, the department determined that Enbridge's proposed replacement of the border segment was consistent with the authorization in the existing presidential permit".
When Congress enacted it, lawmakers said the statute merely reaffirmed, and did not expand, the existing detention powers granted a decade earlier in the authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
A report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the NYPD, released last August, underlined how city cops were failing to adhere to the existing guidelines, including by continuing investigations after their legal authorization had expired.
