Authorization Quotes

• That authorization was based on an intelligence community assessment of a serious and continuing threat to the homeland. The lawfulness of the actual authorization was reviewed by lawyers at the Department of Justice and the White House, and was approved by the attorney general.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • House
  • Community
  • Justice

• I didn't craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Order
  • Craft
  • Authorization

• It is inconceivable that military commanders would permit their troops to cross an international border without explicit political authorization to do so. That clearly would be a decision solely for your Government.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Political
  • Government
  • Decision