They told me that if I voted for John McCain...

…we would have a secretive president using his executive power to take America to war without Congressional approval. And they were right!

President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

Obama signed the order, known as a presidential “finding”, within the last two or three weeks, according to four U.S. government sources familiar with the matter.

Of course, we don’t know what’s in the finding, what it rules in or rules out, because it’s seekret. Congress needs to start conducting some hearings, if only to restore some Constitutionality to this action.

If Bush had done anything like this with Iraq or Afghanistan…

(hat tip to Prof. Reynolds for the “They told me if…” meme)