High officials in Government take an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land, and the law requires that they inform the appropriate committee or committees fully about actions such as this which violate international law, actions which could reflect dangerously upon this country and undermine its credibility in the family of nations, actions which could get this country into war, actions which could result in casualties of American fighting men.
Arguing that the administration was obliged to inform Congress of actions violating international law.
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