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Please read whole Washington Post OpEd I referred to - Daschle said AUMF explicitly did not include US only foreign and only for 9/11 related
“Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words ‘in the United States and’ after ‘appropriate force’ in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas—where we all understood he wanted authority to act—but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.”"
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=civilliberties_180#civilliberties_180
