Ed Markey: We’re Long Past the Point Where We Need a New AUMF So Americans Can Understand Our Mission

‘We need an explanation from the president, the White House on why we are in each one of these countries’

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MARKEY: "You’re right. We were invited there in 2013 by the Niger government to provide support to help their government to thwart ISIS or any other group. But the authorization for use of military force that was the justification of going into Afghanistan has now been used very loosely to move us into country after country. It was not the basis for Niger. But we need public hearings. We need an explanation from the president, the White House on why we are in each one of these countries. What our mission is. What the exposure of our troops are. In each and every one of these instances we’re long past the point where we need a national debate on a new authorization for the use of military force so the American people can understand our mission overseas."

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