The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday to obtain a copy of the memo the Department of Justice drafted to legally justify the Pentagon’s spate of vessel strikes in the Caribbean.
The Trump administration says the strikes, which have largely been conducted off the Venezuelan coast, are necessary to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S., but critics say they are tantamount to war crimes. At least 88 people have died in the attacks in recent months.
“Prompt disclosure of these records is critically important to ensuring informed public debate about the U.S. military’s unprecedented strikes, which have killed more than eighty civilians since September, in clear violation of domestic and international law,” the ACLU said in the complaint, which lists the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation as co-plaintiffs.
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