ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE, the battle over the power of the presidency and a new way of looking at the Constitution. BARTON GELLMAN, The Washington Post: They believed that the president could ...

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House Speaker John Boehner has joined forces in an odd coalition with the left to declare President Obama’s continued military action in Libya a dangerous and potentially unconstitutional power grab ...

If Representative William Delahunt from Massachusetts had to choose sides in that fight, it seems he would choose al Qaeda over Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. At the end of a televised ...

WASHINGTON—David Addington, who helped steer the aggressive national security policies of the George W. Bush administration, will aim to shape a broader range of legal developments as head of the ...

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