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Politics

Unhappy 9/14!

Matt Welch | 9.14.2010 12:16 PM

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As national security reporter Eli Lake just Tweeted, "On this day in 2001 Congress gave President Bush the authority to wage war against al Qaeda all over the world[.] Obama asserts the same powers."

Read Lake's Reason piece on "The 9/14 Presidency" here.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

PoliticsGeorge W. BushWar on TerrorBarack ObamaIraqWorldCivil LibertiesPolicy
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