SENATE JUDICIARY EXAMINS EXECUTIVE WARTIME POWER

From the left, Former CIA Director James Woolsey, Vice president of the Global Strategic Security Division, Booz Allen Hamilton Harold Hongju Koh, Senior fellow in constitutional studies at the CATO Institute Robert Levy, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pa. Professor Doug Kmiec, Associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia Robert Turner, Yale Law School Professor Ken Gormley, testify before a Senate Judciiary Committee on executive wartime powers, in Washington on February 28, 2006. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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