[Non-Sequitur]

I don't see you mention the funds Congress approved for the State Department being used for expenses for the Navy Department, and not approved by by Congress.

I don't see where the Constitution requires Congressional approval for departmental expenditures.

Therein lies the Constitutional violation, but it would only be the first by that man.

Not at all.

[PeaRidge]

You said: "I don't see where the Constitution requires Congressional approval for departmental expenditures.

But do you see in the Constitution where the President has the right to instruct a Cabinet member to transfer, literally in his pocket, departmental cash money to another department for unauthorized military action?

And where do you see in the Constitution that a President has the authority to send a couple of lieutenants in the Navy out to rent ships to be used in a secret invasion of Southern states?