Obama is using 13-year-old authorization from Bush era to bomb ISIS without congressional approval – which may be illegal!

‘The Obama administration is using George W. Bush’s 2001 permission slip from Congress as legal justification to expand a bombing campaign against the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), even though that authorization applied to al-Qaeda – which is now the ISIS terror group’s mortal enemy.

‘We believe that he can rely on the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) as statutory authority for the military airstrike operations he is directing,’ a senior administration official told reporters Wednesday during a conference call a few hours before President Barack Obama’s televised speech.’ Read more