Biden Officials Open to Tightening Law Authorizing War on Terrorist Groups
At a Senate hearing, officials also urged repeal of the 1991 Gulf War and 2002 Iraq war laws, portraying them as obsolete and unnecessary.
American soldiers patrolling near an oil well in Syria in June. The 2002 law that authorized the Iraq war has been cited in recent years as part of the legal justification for military action against the Islamic State.Credit.Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Aug. 3, 2021, 7:58 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The Biden administration is open to several potential ways to tighten a much-stretched 2001 law that serves as the domestic legal basis for the open-ended “forever war” against terrorists around the world, a senior State Department official told Congress on Tuesday.
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