Key Takeaways from September 28 House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on AUMF Reform crisisgroup.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from crisisgroup.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The HFAC hearing clarified the shallowness of the Biden administration’s conception of AUMF reform, divisions between the political branches and within the House, and the risks posed by enabling expansive executive branch legal theories on the use of force.
Congress should seek to determine how the executive branch interprets and relies on the 2001 AUMF and where the administration stands on proposed reforms that have been widely discussed.
 Ex-militant leaders from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have petitioned the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (rtd.) over the alleged attempt by the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu to scuttle an ongoing suit against 15 companies. According to the former militants, this is being done in an attempt to allegedly arm-twist the Amnesty office to pay over N3.8 billion for jobs not done in order to receive the sum of $2 million as a kick-back.