Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues For Killing

Source: Moon of Alabama —

In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council (OLC) issued a widely condemned memo which declared the use of torture in ‘authorized military interrogations’ as legal when done under the ‘president’s constitutional authority to direct a war’. The Trump administration now issued a comparable OLC memo to justify its wanton killing of alleged drug smugglers at sea.