Oil, Lies, and Videotape

Inside the administration’s phantom war on “drug traffickers,” the media blackout around Epstein’s finances, and the steady unmaking of democracy, one OLC memo at a time.

Good morning! Each dawn brings a new entry in the Trump administration’s dystopian fanfiction, except now it’s not speculative; it’s classified. Yesterday, we learned that the Office of Legal Counsel, the same fine legal minds who once thought waterboarding was just “enhanced spa therapy”, has decided that war doesn’t count as war anymore. According to …