Obama Regime Lawyers Looking for Ways to Bypass Congress and Continue Libya War as 60-Day Legal Deadline Looms…
Imagine if Bush tried bypassing the War Powers Resolution? The MSM would be going ballistic.
WASHINGTON — President Obama and his legal advisers are deliberating about how the United States military may lawfully continue participating in NATO’s bombing campaign in Libya after next week, when the air war will reach a legal deadline for terminating combat operations that have not been authorized by Congress.
Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a president must terminate such operations 60 days after he has formally notified lawmakers about the introduction of armed forces into actual or imminent hostilities. The Libya campaign will reach that mark on May 20.
Though Congressional leaders have shown little interest in enforcing the resolution, James Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, was asked Thursday about the deadline at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
He said the administration was examining the military’s “role and activities as we move through the next period of time” and would consult Congress about evaluating “what we think we can and can’t do.”
“Mindful of the passage of time including the end of the two-month period, we are in the process of reviewing our role, and the president will be making decisions going forward in terms of what he sees as appropriate for us to do,” Mr. Steinberg said.
The administration apparently has no intention of pulling out of the Libya campaign, and Mr. Steinberg said that Mr. Obama was committed “to act consistently with the War Powers Resolution.” So the Obama legal team is now trying to come up with a plausible theory for why continued participation by the United States does not violate the law.
A variety of Pentagon and military officials said the issue was in the hands of lawyers, not commanders. Several officials described a few of the ideas under consideration.
Posted by ZIP on Friday, May 13, 2011, at 2:51 pm | 
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Hope congress throws the book at him if he tries to circumvent the Resolution
Also this is probably why he’s increasing the effort to kill Momo
Obama has turned out to be as much of a butcher as previous American presidents. I hope they impeach him … and then try him for his war crimes in Libya. He is such a hypocritical liar – bombing people to protect them – people who pose no threat to us. The rebels pose more of a threat to us … what an idiot.
More shredding of our Constitution. Ugh.
Exactly, Josh. And today, some of these al-Qaeda-backed “rebels” are Barack Hussein’s visitors to the WH. He’ll probably let them move to the US and give our hard-earned money to this trash.
This evil regime has continually found a way to circumvent Congress.
I’d like to think that this is just another step towards getting himself impeached.
Always looking to play the system, work around angles,a real street hustling p.o.s.
The Republicans had better raise hell and put Obama’s feet to the fire on this one. They keep wimping out on all the crap he does. If they sit this one out, a third party may be on the way.
I agree Jimco. I want this treasonous,fraudulent POS thrown in Leavenworth.
I just heard McRino say the war powers act is no big deal. I don’t know why he is such a supporter of this little war.
Yeah the War Powers Act only applies to Republican presidents. No. Of course it does…check out the commie manifesto that libshits live by.
Defund the war in Libya Congress. That’s what Tip O’Neil threatened to do to RR when we went to Lebanon.
Impeachment is also be an appropriate step.
Hi Tina,
Yes, but the news media won’t stand for it.
The ayatollah-osama-obama-obastard, doesn’t need anything anymore from the Congress. obastard is not only way above the law – he is the law.
You can bet your paycheck and yo ass, his second term, if re-elected, the Constitution will be GONE!!! obastard’s czar staff will replace the Congress and Cass Sunstein will replace the Supreme Court.
We are headed toward FULL BLOWN COMMUNISM of such that even the Russians and Chinese will pity us.
Bartholomew Roberts
Laws, what laws? We are told we’re on the frontier of a new and awesome world. There it is. One man making the decisions instead of those pesky members of the House and Senate.
bahai, you will lose your R2P now.. eff you
Obama could always ask congress to declare war.
Oh yea, let’s keep the war going over there and Redwine, you are right, so
we can bring some of these war refugees over here to get our tax money
in the form of a “support” money for “all their help” , and OH, so they
can look for our soldiers and the Seals in Va. Beach thanks to WaPo.
Yep, that’s right. Way to recruit American soldiers to go to war for some
freaking crazy muslimes.
Obama is regime ! Congress , Senate, Supreme court are responblity hold an accounting Obama is legally , lied his speech on that day Osama blin killed which he does not know nothing about war things so CIA Leona Panette ordered killed Osama bin without Obama, He is doing now issue Alien legally Immigation , His speech only think himself as he said (I) . He is not an American. He was born in Kenya and He grown up out of country . We (American) taxes pay to Obama is legally ride free and live in white house for fun ! He is violated of crime ! An enought hearing B.S. its time to Obama impechment immedately if its not then make it worse later cost up and up and up ! Its scary!