The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday demanding that the DOJ hand over a secret and "classified" Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that justified the Trump administration's "lethal" boat strikes in international waters on alleged drug smugglers, whom the government deems "narcoterrorists."

The memo, referenced publicly by the White House and the Department of Defense, and read by members of Congress, is a document that "the public deserves to know" about, because it answers "how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful, and the grounds on which it purports to provide immunity from prosecution for personnel who carried out these crimes," the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit said.

"Prompt disclosure of these records is critically imp

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