And the Qaddafi regime has chosen as a government, as the militaryforce, as the -- well, as a government and a militaryforce to undertake attacks of those citizens and those civilian-populated areas.
Mr. Obama said for the first time that the 2001 congressional Authorization for the Use of MilitaryForce adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks should be revised and eventually repealed to recognize that al Qaeda is a terror organization on the path to defeat.
In a 2012 speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, Brennan asserted that the drone strikes are legal under a militaryforce authorization approved by Congress after the 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States.