President Obama had legal authority to order and execute Operation Geronimo. On September 11, 2001, thousands of American citizens from New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania were going through their daily routines: waking up to catch the bus, preparing breakfast for their families and saying their farewells before the commute to work or school. Unfortunately for 2,977 of these Americans, they will never make it home. On that fateful day, Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group organized and executed an act of terrorism on US soil. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial planes full of passengers and their crews, then redirected the planes’ flight paths. Two planes crashed at the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York, one plane impacted
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Though the Commander-in-Chief could’ve easily chosen to keep the Operation’s success a secret, it would have labeled it as a traditional Military Operation and law experts will see this as a direct violation of Titles of the US Codes stated before. The Commander-in-chief, the Congress along with the intelligence agencies assumed the risks by conducting the operation as a Covert Action, ensuring the President has maintained a Chain of Command; providing the public with a clearer understanding and a better viewpoint of the risks the Chain of Command assumed on behalf of the United States of America and its people. President Obama had legal authority to order and execute Operation Geronimo. On September 11, 2001, thousands of American citizens from New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania were going through their daily routines: waking up to catch the bus, preparing breakfast for their families and saying their farewells before the commute to work or school. Unfortunately for 2,977 of these Americans, they will never make it home. On that fateful day, Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group organized and executed an act of terrorism on US soil. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial planes full of passengers and their crews, then redirected the planes’ flight paths. Two planes crashed at the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York, one plane impacted the Pentagon in Washington, Virginia whilst the other hijacked plane, thanks to the
Though the Commander-in-Chief could’ve easily chosen to keep the Operation’s success a secret, it would have labeled it as a traditional Military Operation and law experts will see this as a direct violation of Titles of the US Codes stated before. The Commander-in-chief, the Congress along with the intelligence agencies assumed the risks by conducting the operation as a Covert Action, ensuring the President has maintained a Chain of Command; providing the public with a clearer understanding and a better viewpoint of the risks the Chain of Command assumed on behalf of the United States of America and its people. President Obama had legal authority to order and execute Operation Geronimo. On September 11, 2001, thousands of American citizens from New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania were going through their daily routines: waking up to catch the bus, preparing breakfast for their families and saying their farewells before the commute to work or school. Unfortunately for 2,977 of these Americans, they will never make it home. On that fateful day, Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group organized and executed an act of terrorism on US soil. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial planes full of passengers and their crews, then redirected the planes’ flight paths. Two planes crashed at the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York, one plane impacted the Pentagon in Washington, Virginia whilst the other hijacked plane, thanks to the