Congress In Dark On Counterterror Plan Before Obama Speech At West Point -- Washington Times
Members of Congress need to pay attention when President Obama delivers a speech: He could be urging support for an initiative they’ve never heard of.
During a commencement address to West Point cadets last month, Mr. Obama called on Congress to fund a new $5 billion counterterrorism plan to “train, build capacity and facilitate partner countries on the front lines” of the war on terror.
Sounds like something Congress could get behind, if they only knew what it was.
The staff for the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, has yet to be briefed by or receive details from the White House about the new initiative. The committee has been drafting the National Defense Authorization Act, which presumably would fund the initiative from the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget.
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My Comment: This is not how you govern a country .... and this is definitely not how you formulate counter-terrorism plans and policies. But this has now become the standard for this White House .... we tell you what needs to be done .... and you obey .... and if not .... executive actions are the end result.