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Senate Leader Surprises Lawmakers with New ISIS War Powers act
Defense One ^ | 01/21/2016 | Sarah Mimms

Posted on 01/22/2016 2:20:25 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009

Edited on 01/22/2016 2:33:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

Neither Republicans nor Democrats knew the majority leader planned to set up a debate on authorizing the use of force against the Islamic State.

Sen­ate Ma­jor­ity Lead­er Mitch Mc­Con­nell offered mem­bers a snow-week­end sur­prise late Wed­nes­day night: Quietly tee­ing up a de­bate on the leg­al un­der­pin­ning for the fight against IS­IS.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; congress; domestic; election2016; isis; kentucky; kimdavis; law; martial; military; mitchmcconnell; randpaul; warpowersact
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Martial law authorization has been advanced by US Senate leader Mitch McConnell's new ISIS War Powers Act. Conveniently promoted during the distraction of the Snowmaggedon storm bearing down on DC. This war powers act permits military force to be used against ISIS / terrorist anywhere, including domestic deployment. This seems to conflict with Posse Commitatus which used to forbid the use of the US military on domestic soil.

This dove-tails nicely with Obola's NDAA 2011 which authorizes indefinite detention of any citizens found to be beligerent to gov't, without benefit of due process.

Interesting that democrats forbid strict screening measures of immigrants from ISIS dominated countries, so we can take the fight to ISIS, within our homeland...

1 posted on 01/22/2016 2:20:25 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Mitch IS in his snow fort.. getting ready to lob snowballs at ISIS.


2 posted on 01/22/2016 2:22:38 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Thanks for posting this. It definitely sounds concerning and is not something that should not be rushed through with no discussion.


3 posted on 01/22/2016 2:26:54 PM PST by dschapin
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Imagine how many will be locked up if the thin skinned Donald Trump wins the nomination and takes the presidency...

The man viciously attacks people left and right with the sole weapon he currently has in his arsenal: Twitter


4 posted on 01/22/2016 2:32:35 PM PST by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: plewis1250

He appears to be doing a pretty good job of winning support with twitter. And hasn’t blown through a hundred million bucks like some of the others.


5 posted on 01/22/2016 2:36:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: plewis1250

I imagine you should be locked up - in a padded cell with the other tinfoil hat-wearing wing nuts.


6 posted on 01/22/2016 2:36:40 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Domestic deployment? Uh, no. Not with Hussein.

Waco? Blue Ridge? Do these ring a bell? We are not interested Mitch.


7 posted on 01/22/2016 2:37:15 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009; All

Key point:
**The AUMF put for­ward by Mc­Con­nell would not re­strict the pres­id­ent’s use of ground troops, nor have any lim­its re­lated to time or geo­graphy.**

Nor would it touch on the is­sue of what to do with the 2001 AUMF, which the Obama ad­min­is­tra­tion has used to at­tack IS­IS des­pite that au­thor­iz­a­tion’s in­struc­tions to use force against those who planned the 9/11 ter­ror­ist at­tacks.

**By con­trast, the leg­al au­thor­ity put for­ward by the ad­min­is­tra­tion last Feb­ru­ary wouldn’t au­thor­ize “en­dur­ing of­fens­ive ground com­bat op­er­a­tions” and would have ended three years after en­act­ment, un­less reau­thor­ized.**

Mitch and the GOPe have outdone the Democrats in giving this president and those following, unconstitutional limitless war power abroad or domestically, with an expiration period.
Something is up.


8 posted on 01/22/2016 2:38:44 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Makes you wonder if Mitch has visited those bathhouses in Chi-town when BO was there.


9 posted on 01/22/2016 2:43:51 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

“US Senate leader Mitch McConnell” ...

...pathetic, worthless, privileged, bastard.


10 posted on 01/22/2016 2:47:10 PM PST by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: plewis1250
Imagine how many will be locked up if the thin skinned Donald Trump wins the nomination and takes the presidency...

Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, and William Kristol to start...

11 posted on 01/22/2016 2:48:54 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

I think you nailed it.


12 posted on 01/22/2016 2:51:09 PM PST by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Bttt


13 posted on 01/22/2016 2:52:28 PM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: plewis1250

Please, I beseech you. There are enough threads where you can cross swords with your foes. There is NO NEED to take the battle to unrelated threads such as this one.


14 posted on 01/22/2016 2:53:18 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Barack Obama-gleefully bringing taharrush gamea to your neighborhood)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
-- This dove-tails nicely with Obola's NDAA 2011 which authorizes indefinite detention of any citizens found to be beligerent to gov't, without benefit of due process. --

The laws that GWB proposed in this regard set the groundwork. IIRC, the Hamdi case is a good line to follow, as well as the SCOTUS striking the law that allowed the executive to create terrorism and war courts (also Hamdi, agian, IIRC).

There is much meat in those debates, and we are at a risky place where much use of force is allowed, outside of war and behind closed doors.

15 posted on 01/22/2016 2:54:52 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Jim Noble

Now that was funny, right there!


16 posted on 01/22/2016 2:55:58 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: WTFOVR

How so?
Are you comfortable with the current president and those that follow, having standing war power authorization that purposely does not define geographic conflict area or time limitation for deploying military force?
You do realize that it is Congress’s role to enact a specific war power authorization?
Right?

Do you know what Posse Commitatus is?
US military is not to be used domestically unless we are attacked and at war.

What do you think of the US funding Al-Queda in Libya and Syria, creating ISIS, which ensuing creative destruction has wrecked havoc in four countries, killed tens of thousands of christians, and forced over nearly a Million Syrian muslim “refugees” into europe?

Create a crisis like ISIS, deliberately let the threat into your borders, and then pass an unlimited terrorist war powers act to take the fight to an enemy you created, no matter where they are, and for no matter how long?
Even domestically?
No authorization expiration?

Really?

Is that a good idea?

RE: “I imagine you should be locked up”


17 posted on 01/22/2016 2:56:29 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: plewis1250

You re worried about Trump? Are you insane? They re thinking of doing this during Obama s administration. Lame Duck or no, if they pass this there will be no Trump.


18 posted on 01/22/2016 2:57:03 PM PST by Fhios (Just say no to the apostrophe on FR.)
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To: plewis1250

Can you make the distinction between a “criticism” and an “attack”?


19 posted on 01/22/2016 2:57:23 PM PST by austinaero
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To: MarchonDC09122009

My impression with this sort of act is that they emanate from the WH, with a public fiction being that they originate with Congress. Of course it is a Congressperson who drops the bill in the hopper, but that is mere formality.


20 posted on 01/22/2016 3:00:12 PM PST by Cboldt
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