"It was congress that gave the authority to the President and it was congress that decided how it was to be implemented."
Clearly the State Dept, is following the Congressional statute by the letter: "Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended."
Etc.
Fact Sheet
Office of Counterterrorism
Washington, DC
October 11, 2005
Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm
and more here:
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/
It's astonishing that the Tamil Liberation Tigers (aka Tamil Tigers) prevailed under this harebrained judge. The Tigers virtually invented suicide bombings, long before even the Palestineans.
They also have a very long history of heroin trafficking to support their terror and arms activities (sidebar: in Phnom Penh there was an excellent and popular Tamil restaurant that also was a known center of Tiger activity; it had been covered repeatedly in the expat English newspapers and "everyone" knew about it including the U.S. Embassy; if you stayed long enough you'd eventually see the guys showing up with their aluminum briefcases as they were whisked up the back stairs to do biz, all rather obvious).