Article 3MQVS For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions

For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions

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Cory Doctorow
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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")

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