NEWS FLASH

Obama Overruled Top Justice And Defense Department Lawyers On Libya | In a breaking story, the New York Times’s Charlie Savage reports that President Obama “rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department” when deciding that the U.S. military involvement in Libya was legal and did not amount to “hostilities.” By taking the “unusual” step of overruling Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson and the Office of Legal Counsel’s Caroline Krass, Obama made the argument that he is not subject to provisions of the War Powers Act that would have required him to terminate military activities or scale back the mission by May 20.