New lawsuit presses Pentagon, State Dept to disclose legal justification for Venezuelan boat strikes
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Advocacy groups filed a new lawsuit pressing the Pentagon and the State Department for a memo giving the legal justification for Venezuelan boat strikes.
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In the lawsuit, the ACLU, which noted the action was being taken under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), said it was "seeking the immediate release of a legal opinion authored by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ), concerning the U.S. military’s claimed authority to carry out lethal strikes on civilians in boats that the U.S. government asserts are carrying drugs."
The ACLU argued that the release of the information was "critically important to ensuring informed public debate about the U.S. military’s unprecedented strikes," which it says were carried out "in clear violation of domestic and international law."
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