Joe, go to post 132 and answer what tired old conservative hasn’t yet answered: In the Authorization to Use Force, what military officer did Congress authorize to “use appropriate force” in Afghanistan?
What military officer acting independently of the President has the authority to tell Lakin and other soldiers to go to Afghanistan and conduct combat operations there? Lind said Obama’s Constitutional status is irrelevant because Congress said the military didn’t need no stinkin’ president in order to give Lakin those orders.
Precisely WHERE did Congress authorize “the military” to use force in Afghanistan? It wasn’t in the Authorization to Use Force, so where was it? That is the crux of Lind’s whole argument that Obama’s status is irrelevant. She’s going to send a distinguished, noble officer to jail based on exactly what?