Charlie Savage’s Twitter Archive—№ 11,884

@Hal9O0 @rgoodlaw @SenDuckworth @steve_vladeck @just_security The precedent is the claim that if troops are deployed somewhere under an AUMF, and are then threatened by a different foe that is not otherwise covered by that AUMF, the AUMF provides legal authority to strike that different foe in self-defense.