Bin Laden's Dead, But the War on Terror ExpandsS  Some of us
naive folk thought that the death of Osama bin Laden, combined
with the supposedly crippled state of Al Qaeda in the last few
years, might induce political leaders to consider something
they've rarely, if ever, considered before: An actual plan to
end the War on Terror. Instead, congressional leaders may just
fundamentally expand terror-fighting authority to a new high,
forever.  The legal basis for the War on Terror is the
Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) Against
Terrorists, which passed Congress on September 14th, 2001 and
was signed into law shortly thereafter. It granted the president
authority to go after those behind the September 11th attacks
explicitly:   The Bush administration tried to use this language
as its legal foundation for all the other extraneous crap it
did, like warrantless wiretapping and the first round of
military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, too. The Obama
administration has hardly pushed to reverse these