Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force.

Congress approved the law in 2001 after 9/11 to give President Bush the authority to invade Afghanistan and to go after Al Queda and the Taliban who aided the terrorists who had attacked the U.S. Mr. Bush used the law as a pretext to open the Guantánamo Bay camp, to institute secret prisons, and to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant. He claimed it as justification for the invasion of Iraq. President Obama has relied on the 2001 authorization to use drones to kill terrorists far from the Afghan battlefield, and to claim an unconstitutional power to kill American citizens in other countries without judicial review. Congress must repeal the 2001 authorization so that this and future U.S. presidents can be constrained from conducting a perpetual, ever expanding war on terror, unchecked.