Oona Hathaway Questions Constitutionality of US-Iraq Security Pact

Reuters, Nov. 19, 2008 by Ross Colvin
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AI8OT20081119

Oona Hathaway … said it appeared the agreement would give the joint committee operational control over U.S. military operations. If so, that would be “unprecedented and extremely unusual,” she said. “The president can enter into agreements on his own but this agreement goes far beyond the president’s independent constitutional powers,” Hathaway said.