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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THuRSDAY, FEbRuARY 14, 2019
House reasserts war powers in Yemen vote
By LISA MASCARO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Asserting
congressional
authority over war-making
powers, the House passed a
resolution Wednesday that
would force the adminis-
tration to withdraw U.S.
troops from involvement in
Yemen, in a rebuke of Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s alli-
ance with the Saudi-led coa-
lition behind the military
intervention.
Lawmakers in both par-
ties are increasingly uneasy
over the humanitarian cri-
sis in Yemen and skeptical
of the U.S. partnership with
that coalition, especially in
light of Saudi Arabia’s role
in the killing of Washing-
ton Post columnist Jamal
Khashoggi, a critic of the
royal family.
Passage would mark
the first time Congress has
relied on the decades-old
War Powers Resolution to
halt military intervention. It
also would set up a potential
confrontation with the White
House, which has threatened
a veto. The House voted
248-177 to approve the mea-
sure, sending it to the Sen-
ate, where a similar resolu-
tion passed last year.
“We have helped create,
and worsen, the world’s larg-
est humanitarian crisis,” said
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Ca-
AP Photo/Hani Mohammed
Tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels show their support for ongoing peace talks in Sanaa, Yemen.
lif., during the debate. “Our
involvement in this war,
quite frankly, is shameful.”
The chairman of the
House Foreign Relations
Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel,
D-N.Y., said the vote rep-
resents “Congress reclaiming
its role in foreign policy.”
Senate approval would
set up a showdown with
the administration — a veto
would be Trump’s first —
over the president’s shifting
approach on foreign policy.
Lawmakers are quick to
point out that Trump wants
to withdraw troops from the
wars in Syria and Afghani-
stan as part of his “America
First” approach, but he has
shown less interest in limit-
ing the U.S. role in Yemen.
The White House says the
House resolution is “flawed”
because U.S. troops are not
directly involved in mili-
tary action in Yemen, where
the coalition is fighting the
Iranian-backed Houthi reb-
els in a conflict largely seen
as a proxy war involving the
Mideast’s dominant regional
players.
Since 2015, the adminis-
tration says, the U.S. has pro-
vided support to the coalition,
including intelligence and,
until recently, aerial refuel-
ing, but it has not had forces
involved in “hostilities.”
Congress has not invoked
the War Power Resolution,
which requires approval of
military actions, since it was
enacted in 1973. Lawmak-
ers approved more sweeping
authorizations for the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan that
some argue are being used
too broadly for other military
actions.
Newly emboldened Dem-
ocrats in the House, eager to
confront Trump on foreign
policy, and Republicans in
both chambers have shown
a willingness to put a legisla-
tive check on the president’s
agenda.
In the House, 18 Republi-
cans, including members of
the GOP’s libertarian-lean-
ing wing and Trump allies
in the conservative Free-
dom Caucus, joined Demo-
crats in passing the Yemen
measure.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Ca-
lif., who drafted the legisla-
tion, said there’s an emerg-
ing bipartisan alliance that’s
skeptical of military inter-
vention without congressio-
nal oversight.
“It’s not just about Yemen.
It’s about the Congress taking
a stand and every future pres-
ident having to think twice
about whether to authorize
a military intervention with-
out congressional approval,”
Khanna said in an interview.
The Senate version is
from independent Sen. Ber-
nie Sanders of Vermont and
backed by Utah Republican
Sen. Mike Lee.
Before Wednesday’s vote,
the House overwhelmingly
agreed to add an amendment
offered by Republicans who
are seeking to expose emerg-
ing Democratic divisions
over support for Israel.
The amendment reaf-
firms the U.S. commit-
ment “to combat anti-Sem-
itism around the world” and
says it’s in the national secu-
rity interest to oppose boy-
cotts of Israel. That’s a ref-
erence to the Boycott, Divest
and Sanction movement that
has gained support of some
lawmakers.
First-term Rep. Ilhan
Omar, D-Minn., one of the
Muslim-American women
elected to Congress, came
under criticism this week for
her comments against the
Israel lobbying organization
AIPAC that raised anti-Se-
mitic stereotypes. She later
apologized.
The House added another
GOP amendment that would
allow continued intelli-
gence sharing, which drew
fire from the American Civil
Liberties Union. The ACLU
warned it gives the presi-
dent broad authority to pro-
vide the Saudis and others
with U.S. intelligence infor-
mation about Yemen, and
the group said the package,
overall, is now weaker than
originally proposed.
Now the Yemen measure
goes to the Senate, where a
similar resolution on remov-
ing U.S. involvement in
the war was approved with
Republican support late last
year.
At the time, Congress
was eager to send a message
to both the president and
the Saudis after the Octo-
ber murder of the U.S.-
based journalist Khashoggi
at the Saudi Consulate in
Istanbul.
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Associated Press
Amazon, in stunning reversal,
dumps NYC as new HQ site
NEW YORK — Amazon will not build
a new headquarters in New York City, a
stunning reversal to an ambitious plan that
would have brought an estimated 25,000
jobs to the city.
The online retailer faced fierce opposi-
tion from some New York politicians who
were unhappy with the nearly $3 billion in
tax incentives Amazon was promised. Along
with thousands of jobs, the Seattle company
had planned to spend $2.5 billion building
its new offices.
“We are disappointed to have reached
this conclusion — we love New York,” the
company said in a blog post , adding that it
already has 5,000 employees in the city and
plans to grow those teams.
It was a serious blow to Gov. Andrew
Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who lobbied
intensely to land the campus within city limits.
Amazon said it does not plan to look for
another location at this time, and will continue
with plans to build offices in Arlington, Vir-
ginia, and Nashville, Tennessee. The Arling-
ton campus was expected to be the same size
as the New York one, with 25,000 employees.
The Nashville office is expected to have 5,000
employees.
Moment of silence held for 17
killed in Florida a year ago
PARKLAND, Fla. — Hundreds of
thousands of students and adults across
Florida and beyond bowed their heads
in a moment of silence today to mark
the first anniversary of the shooting ram-
page at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland that left 17 people
dead.
“It’s a permanent sore spot,” said Fort
Lauderdale High School junior Jake
Lynch. “Forever, me going forward, I’ll
feel this day, and this time and those
names. It reminds me of where I want
the world to be. ... From suffering better
things come out.”
The massacre on Feb. 14, 2018,
inflamed the national debate over guns,
turned young people into political activists
and gave rise to some of the biggest youth
demonstrations since the Vietnam era.
Many Stoneman Douglas students
skipped school. For some it was too emo-
tional; others did not want to be in the
spotlight.
Sophomore Julia Brighton would not
go inside, instead placing flowers at the
outdoor memorial. She said she suffered
with nightmares for months. Staying out-
side “felt like it would be a better experi-
ence for me instead of being at school and
putting myself through that,” she said.
FBI official McCabe feared
Russia probe would end
after Comey fired
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Dep-
uty Director Andrew McCabe said in
an interview aired today that he worried
that investigations into President Don-
ald Trump’s ties to Russia and possible
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Judge finds Manafort lied to
investigators in Russia probe
WASHINGTON — Former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort inten-
tionally lied to investigators and a federal
grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia
probe, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman
Jackson’s decision was another loss for
Manafort, a once-wealthy political con-
sultant who rose to lead Donald Trump’s
2016 campaign and now faces years in
prison in two criminal cases brought
in special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation.
The four-page ruling hurts Manafort’s
chance of receiving a reduced sentence,
though Jackson said she would decide
the exact impact during his sentencing
next month. It also resolves a dispute that
had provided new insight into how Muel-
ler views Manafort’s actions as part of the
broader probe of Russian election interfer-
ence and any possible coordination with
Trump associates.
Prosecutors have made clear that they
remain deeply interested in Manafort’s
interactions with a man the FBI says
has ties to Russian intelligence. But it’s
unclear exactly what has drawn their
attention and whether it relates to election
interference because much of the dispute
has played out in secret court hearings and
blacked out court filings.
Manafort’s sentencing is set for
March 13. He faces up to five years
in prison on two felony charges stem-
ming from illegal lobbying he per-
formed on behalf of Ukrainian political
interests.
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ASTORIAN
A
obstruction of justice would be shut down
after Trump fired FBI Director James
Comey.
According to CBS, which conducted
the interview, McCabe said Justice Depart-
ment officials discussed bringing the Cab-
inet together to consider using the Con-
stitution’s 25th Amendment to remove
Trump from office.
McCabe, a frequent target of Trump’s
ire, described in the interview with CBS’
“60 Minutes” that he was greatly alarmed
by the possibility that the president “might
have won the White House with the aid of
the government of Russia.”
He said he assembled his investigators
the day after his boss, Comey, was fired
to discuss how to keep the investigations
moving forward in the event he was fired
or reassigned.
McCabe was fired from the FBI last
year after the Justice Department inspector
general concluded that he had lied during
an internal investigation into a news media
disclosure.
The allegations, which McCabe has
denied, have been referred for investiga-
tion to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Wash-
ington. McCabe blasted his firing as part
of the Trump administration’s “war on the
FBI” and special counsel Robert Mueller’s
ongoing investigation
Trump responded on Twitter today
to news reports of the interview, saying,
“Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew
McCabe pretends to be a ‘poor little
Angel’ when in fact he was a big part of
the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Rus-
sia Hoax — a puppet for Leakin’ James
Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was
devastating.”
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