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I'm Emily Day and this is an episode from the LawFair Archives for November 28th, 2021.

There's been a lot of talk recently on repealing the 2002 Iraq War solution or the AUMF

in requiring President Biden or any future president to get new authorization from Congress

to lodge military operations in Iraq.

To give more context on the matter, I chose an episode from February 28th, 2015,

in which LawFair's Benjamin Wittis and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane,

appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to write outside perspective

regarding the Obama administration's proposed AUMF against ISIL.

You talk about the president's proposed AUMF, its merits and its flaws,

and how those failings can be addressed.

I'm Sebastian Brady and this is the LawFair podcast, February 28th, 2015.

That was Benjamin Wittis, you just heard, editor-in-chief of LawFair in a senior fellow

at the Brookings Institution.

This week, Ben, along with LawFair's Bobby Chesney and General Jack Keane,

appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to provide outside perspectives

on the president's proposed authorization for the use of military force against ISIL.

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