Bobert:

Put your fact filtering goggles on:

Congress authorized the president to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against "nations, organizations, or persons" associated with al-Qaida

Congress and the courts have also acknowledged any president's "inherent powers." Until Congress changed it in 1988, the U.S. Criminal code stated, "Nothing contained in this chapter . . . shall limit the constitutional power of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect . . . against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power . . ."