19.06.2011 - 12:21 [ Weekly Standard ]

President Obama Rejects Justice Department´s War Powers Interpretation

Even more curious was the White House‘s explanation of how the administration reached this conclusion. Rather than releasing a memorandum from the Justice Department‘s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)—as it did at the outset of the military campaign—the administration offered no specific source for its legal conclusions. Instead, the White House‘s report simply stated that „the President is of the view that“ the War Powers Resolution does not apply.