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Congress's authorization to act f. congress is unable or unwilling to work with him, obama should use his authority as commander in chief to shutter this notorious facility and end this blight on american values and national security. don't take it from me, liberal blowhard on tv. take it from former white house counsel greg craig writing in the washington post with cliff sloan who president obama put in charge of trying to close guantanamo a couple of years ago. congress does keep passing legislation trying to block president obama from trying to close guantanamo. they did it today. the presi...

War or hold detainees without congressional authorization. the question is whether congress can tell the president where military detainees must be held. the answer is an emma tick no. one need not accept a broad view of executive authority to see that the restrictions congress has imposed are unconstitutional. congress tried to force the president to main an a specific military te tension facility for specific detainees that in misjudgment is harmful to u.s. national security and too costly. that's no way to conduct a war and the constitution doesn't permit it. the president attempted to work...