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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I did understand Rockefeller to have been saying that he was not permitted to speak to anyone else about his concerns, and I will confess that I don't know enough about the law there to understand why this might be so, but that I took him at his word.
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All I can figure is that either there was no one with his level of clearance that was appropriate to talk to, or that he didn't trust any of them enough to do so. I suspect the former, and what he probably means is that there weren't any constitutional scholars with the requisite clearance that he could go to.
And, yes, as far as I can discern nothing in the constitution gives the president authority to take action beyond a grant of existing authority merely by telling congress he's going to do so.
