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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1191269)1/6/2020 6:45:43 PM
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Shep,
Congress was consulted on Osama
No they weren't. A few lawmakers were informed of the upcoming strikes, but that wasn't at the request of the White House, and either way, they weren't consulted for their approval:

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How 4 Federal Lawyers Paved the Way to Kill Osama bin Laden

The legal analysis offered the administration wide flexibility to send ground forces onto Pakistani soil without the country’s consent, to explicitly authorize a lethal mission, to delay telling Congress until afterward, and to bury a wartime enemy at sea. By the end, one official said, the lawyers concluded that there was “clear and ample authority for the use of lethal force under U.S. and international law.”

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and you lie, like Trump, about the hundreds of millions paid to Iran.....
You mean Obama actually consulted Congress before delivering the $400 million in cold, hard, untraceable cash as a ransom payment?

Wow, where do you get your fake news from? CNN? MSNPC?

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