““In addition to involving the nation in an unauthorized war in Libya that empowered jihadist enemies of the United States, he and his subordinates falsely represented that the purpose of the war was to protect civilians, pursuant to a United Nations resolution.1 In fact, the purpose of the war was to overthrow the Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi, a government that he and his subordinates had previously portrayed as a key counterterrorism ally of the United States.2””