: U.S. Seeks to Censor More of Memo That Approved Drone Strike on American

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:35 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Seeks to Censor More of Memo That Approved Drone Strike on American
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   If ours is to be "a government of Laws, and not of men" as our Founding Fathers intended, our Executive must "take care that these Laws be faithfully executed" as our constitution requires. And "these laws" are the products of our Congress in open session, not the memos generated in a basement of the Executive's own Department of Justice.

  If our public servants point to memos coming out of the OLC as legal justification for actions in our name, we must know what those memos say in their entirety.  A bit of artful redaction could e.g. make our constitution say "Congress shall make no law".Such a redacted memo can confer no legitimacy on the president's actions.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/us/politics/us-asks-court-to-censor-more-parts-of-target-killing-memo.html?_r=0