Feingold Chairing Judiciary Hearing On Congress's Power to End A War

    Here is some news worth mentioning.

   Actually, it is a press release from Russ Feingold

   Original release

 FEINGOLD TO CHAIR JUDICIARY HEARING ON CONGRESS’S POWER TO END A WAR

January 25, 2007

Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, January 30th, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War.” Earlier this month, Feingold, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, became the first Senator to call on Congress to use its power of the purse to redeploy our troops safely from Iraq so that we can refocus on the global terrorist networks that threaten our national security. Feingold proposed this action after President George Bush announced plans to escalate our military involvement in Iraq despite the objections of members of both parties, military and foreign policy experts, and the American people.

“Congress holds the power of the purse and if the President continues to advance his failed Iraq policy, we have the responsibility to use that power to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq,” Feingold said. “This hearing will help inform my colleagues and the public about Congress’s power to end a war and how that power has been used in the past. I will soon be introducing legislation to use the power of the purse to end what is clearly one of the greatest mistakes in the history of our nation’s foreign policy.”

Witnesses at the hearing will include:

• Louis Fisher, Library of Congress:
• Prof. Walter Dellinger, Duke University School of Law, former Solicitor General of the United States
• Prof. David Barron, Harvard Law School
• Prof. Robert Turner, University of Virginia Law School

Who: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution

What: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing -- “Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War.” Feingold will chair the full committee hearing.

Where: SD - 226

When: Tuesday, January 30th – 10:00 am ET

Senator Feingold’s remarks from yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting regarding the need to end our involvement in Iraq can be viewed and heard here: http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/statements/07/01/20070124.htm.

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   This has been a long time coming! A little late, but we didn't have real Americans controlling the show as we do now.

 

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U.S. Military Is Authorized to Kill Iranians Inside Iraq

By Dafna Linzer

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 26, 2007; Page A01

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.       Washington Post Article

      WaPo also states that for more than a year the U.S. military has been detaining Iranians for a few days at a time while they have been collecting DNA samples, fingerprints, pictures and other things from some of the Iranians, without their knowledge.

   No big deal on those issues since this action is only meant to intimidate the Iran emissaries. I just wonder if the Iranians will instead become more irate and emboldened by the U.S. actions.

    In case you have not noticed, the Iranian government has thus far been fearless and not to concerned, publicly, with the U.S.

 

Technorati tags: U.S., Military, Iran, Iraq