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Eliot Engel: “I have to say that none of us envisioned we would still be relying on it nearly two decades later to fight an enemy that…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2017
I have to say that none of us envisioned we would still be relying on it nearly two decades later to fight an enemy that didn't even exist when the Twin Towers came down.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Reflects on the prolonged reliance on the 2001 AUMF.

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