For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3MQVS)
It's not uncommon for legal opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to be classified; whenever the President wants to do something nefarious -- like authorizing the CIA's program of torture -- he'll get a memo out of the OLC, and then classify the whole thing: the action and its justification. (more")