Performers wearing masks of world leaders hold a placard reading: “Better Off Equal! Close the Gap Between Rich and Poor” during a demonstration called by several non-governmental organizations ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 2nd, 2017.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force was passed by Congress after 9/11 to give the president authority to hunt and fight those responsible. But al Qaeda is a completely different kind of organization now, according to this former CIA operative who spearheaded the Zarqawi Operations team from 2004-2006 as a targeting officer, and we need to rethink the tools we've created.