The New York Times reports:
The Justice Department has declared that President Obama can disregard a law forbidding State Department officials from attending United Nations meetings led by representatives of nations considered to be sponsors of terrorism. Based on that decision, which echoes Bush administration policy, the Obama administration sent State Department officials to the board meetings of the United Nations’ Development Program and Population Fund in late spring and this month, a department spokesman said. The bodies are presided over by Iran, which is on the department’s terror list, along with Cuba, Sudan and Syria.
I doubt we’ll hear too many lefties complaining about Obama’s expansive view of his executive power so long as that power is used for their core foreign policy objective: engaging terrorist states and their leaders in direct negotiation.
