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Should presidents go to Congress before military action?

American Presidents and Congressional War Authorization The president said he will ask for congressional war authorization. The president also said, "I have the authority without authorization."

Ron Paul questions Trump's sudden foreign policy shifts, and worries about his motives.

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Trump's Foreign Policy About-Face By Ron Paul In the critical area of foreign policy, President Trump has done an about-face from his campaign promises. Who's influencing him? What drives Trump’s ambition overseas? I give my...

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"How is Pompeo later in the speech able to claim 'it is my sworn duty to uphold the Constitution' after just a few minutes prior he vowed an attack on the First Amendment?"

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CIA Director: Vows End to Wikileaks Use of "Free Speech Values Against Us" Thursday afternoon, CIA Director Mike Pompeo gave his remarks on what he views as an assault on the intelligence community by Julian Assange and his colleagues at WikiLeaks. Pompeo explains that his reason for speaking is due to: “[T]he false … Continued

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"A source familiar with such accounting and financial reports said the report is a big deal because this kind of systemic coverup — if indeed it can be called a coverup — usually constitutes some type of fraud"

$500 Billion Miscalculation Discovered at HUD From time to time, a huge story can be uncovered in what some might perceive as an unlikely place.

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Rand Paul is supporting this bipartisan effort:

New bill would crack down on border phone searches without warrants A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would make border agents get a warrant before searching Americans’ phones, and affirm that they can cross the border without handing over...

Rand Paul: “For years, both progressives and libertarians have been complaining about these backdoor searches,” Paul said. “It’s not that we’re searching maybe one foreign leader and who they talk to; we search everything in the whole world. There were reports a couple of years ago that all of Italy’s phone calls were absorbed in a one month period of time. We were getting Merkel’s phone calls; we were getting everybody’s phone calls. But by rebound we are collecting millions of Americans phone calls. If you want to look at an American’s phone call or listen to it, you should have to have a warrant, the old fashioned way in a real court where both sides get represented.”

“But a secret warrant by a secret court with a lower standard level because we’re afraid of terrorism is one thing for foreigners but both myself and a Progressive Ron Wyden have been warning about these back door searches for years and that they could be politicized,” he continued. “The facts will come out with Susan Rice. But I think she ought to be under subpoena. She should be asked did you talk to the president about it? Did President Obama know about this? So this is actually, eerily similar to what Trump accused them of which is eavesdropping on conversations for political reasons.”

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"As Paul said, no one in Washington blinks when the subject of regime change comes up, because it has become an accepted policy for establishment Republicans and Democrats alike."

Ron Paul, Donald Trump, and Tulsi Gabbard Share One Thing in Common In his weekly column on the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity's website, Dr. Ron Paul praised recent comments from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the White House that regime change in Syria may no longer be a priority for the US.