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The president can at his instance just initiate war against anyone because we say there's terror suspects in this country. we've got to be very careful that we don't ruin our democracy with this seemingly insatiable instinct to use aggression as a means of trying to settle our differences with groups and other countries. should we pursue terrorists? yes. but as an army, no. as an international police force, yes. >> one of the strangest power dynamics of the second half of the 20th century has been watching the congress slowly surrender its war-making authority to the white house. congressman d...

House services committee chairman asking for these hearings. the letter read in part by declaring a global war against nameless individuals, organizations and nations associated with the taliban and al qaeda as well as those playing a supporting role in their efforts, the detainee security act would appear to grant the president never unfettered authority to initiate military action around the world. so this otherwise obscure detainee security act would actually in your view expand the president's war-making authority? >> there's no question about it. there's a point at which this very intrica...

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