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Mar 2nd, 2009
Posted by Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 4:17pm

More OLC Memos Released

Today the Department of Justice released nine memos and opinions written by Office of Legal Counsel (OC) lawyers. Among them: a memo written by OLC lawyer John Yoo that argued the Fourth Amendment does not apply to military activities inside the United States.

There are still more outstanding OLC memos that the Justice Department has yet to reveal. You can see which ones are still missing here.

Tags: national security project

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3 Responses to "More OLC Memos Released "

  1. Vic Livingston Says:

    TO: CIVIL LIBERTIES COUNSEL; NATIONAL PRESS CORPS; INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS

    RE: BUSH DOJ LEGAL MEMOS APPROVING DOMESTIC TORTURE VIA MICROWAVE RADIATION WEAPONRY

    Still-secret Bush Justice Department memos are believed to have approved the covert use of classified, silent microwave radiation weapons on U.S. citizens -- "targeted" under the pretext of the "war on terror" as "undesirables" and "dissidents."

    Victims, including the journalist who authored the articles linked below, say these painful, debilitating and illness-inducing microwave assaults constitute torture and "slow-kill" (a military descriptive) homicide -- what could be described as an American genocide.

    Victims of these assaults say their family finances are decimated by an array of secret "programs of personal financial destruction" that involve the forced cooperation of private enterprise; surveillance and interception of mail and telecommunications; and the forging of billing, utility, banking and mortgage statements -- what they charge is a process of expropriation and theft by deception.

    Sources say these covert programs were justified by the Bush Justice Department under legal theories that are said to include a suspected "nexus to terrorism" and, according to a source, the legal theory that weapons and/or medical experimentation on U.S. citizens is permissible if subjects are under federal investigation for suspected offenses.

    These microwave weapons assaults have continued under the Obama administration, and are facilitated by an "extrajudicial punishment network" enabled by federal agencies; local police nationwide; and "community gang stalker" citizen vigilantes fronted by government-funded community policing and volunteer organizations.

    ***

    Victims have asked the FBI/Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation. They say officials have told them they see nothing to investigate, refuse to run down leads, and hint that victim accounts are delusional.

    Victims maintain that marginalizing the persecuted as "unstable" or "mentally ill" is a tactic being used to cover up crimes against humanity, a highly organized and well-funded social genocide.

    ***

    TEAM OBAMA: WHAT DO YOUR BUSH HOLD-OVERS KNOW ABOUT THIS:

    • Silent, covert microwave radiation weapons assaults on innocent but "targeted" U.S. citizens;

    • Terroristic vigilante community gang stalking, surreptitious home entry, police-tolerated vandalism;

    • Secret federal "programs of personal financial destruction."

    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-f unded-vigilante-network-targets-terrorizes-u-s-citizens
    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/domestic-torture-radiation-weaponry- americas-horrific-shame

    OR (if links are corrupted / disabled):

    http://www.NowPublic.com/scrivener

  2. Vic Livingston Says:

    ADDENDUM TO ABOVE POST:

    The author is being prohibited from posting the above comment to www.propublica.org, perhaps as a result of interference from a government surveillance program, and/or as a result of external pressure placed upon the operators of the site.

    He asks readers here to please forward the comment for posting to that site, as well as to any other relevant site.

    Thank you.

  3. Vic Livingston Says:

    DOJ memos said to be used as the legal rationale for the covert "use" of microwave radiation weaponry on U.S. citizens "targeted" by federal agencies:

    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funde d-vigilante-network-targets-terrorizes-u-s-citizens
    http://www.nowpublic.com/world/domestic-torture-radiation-weaponry- americas-horrific-shame

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