Legal Authorization for US Anti-terror Efforts Probed

Friction is rising between U.S. lawmakers and the Obama administration over the ground rules for America’s global anti-terror efforts nearly 13 years after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The issue is central to matters ranging from U.S. drone strikes, to CIA activities, to America’s future military engagement in Afghanistan, to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.   Weeks after the 9-11 attacks, Congress authorized an open-ended military campaign against al-Qaida and affiliated...

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