It goes even further than the mistrust of an elected government representative or the entire group in congress for that matter.
“Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution lays out the powers of Congress. It includes several enumerated powers, including the power to lay and collect taxes and tariffs for the “general welfare” of the United States, the power to borrow money, the power to regulate interstate and international commerce, the power to set naturalization laws, the power to coin and regulate money, the power to establish federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court, the power to raise and support military forces, and the power to declare war.”
No where within this does it give the congress the opportunity to either continue an offensive or go further into the already declared war and/or determine the offensive.
“Article II of the Constitution expressly designates the president as “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States” – since 1947, this has been understood to mean all U.S. Armed Forces. As commander-in-chief, the president exercises supreme operational command over the military; which includes the power to launch, direct and supervise military operations, order or authorize the deployment of troops (in foreign countries), and form military policy with the Department of Defense and Homeland Security.”
The organization, attempt, and carrying out of military sorties by the president in Article II of the Constitution, is not within the scope of need to know for congress until the sortie needs to be paid for. In other words, the sortie that killed the leader of ISIL is the president’s and military’s business and has nothing to do with congress to make a decision on unless they wish to declare a war on the country that was involved or investigate an impropriety of the president which in this case was justified by countering the 14 attacks since early 2013 with retaliation and attempting to destroy the organization that proliferated them. The POTUS was inside Constitutional grounds for his acts and congress was outside theirs by claiming their privilege to be informed prior to an attack on a terrorist organization that has continually threatened and attacked US citizens since it’s creation in 2006. And it could be argued that it actually started with the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings in Beirut that killed 241 US citizens or the 1984 United States embassy annex bombing, same city, that killed 24 US citizens. Obviously we have been in Islamic terrorist’s cross hairs for about half a century.
rwood
Bump!