Rand Paul
Iwent to a secure room to read the classified arguments presented by the President’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for why the invasion of Caracas, the capture of Nicholas Maduro early this month, and the ongoing blockade of Venezuela is not a war. Whether or not we are at war, and whether or not the Constitution authorizes ONLY Congress to initiate war, would seem to be questions that the public should be privy to. But the powers that be classified these legal apologies for war to prevent open and public debate.
Just minutes later at the GOP caucus lunch, an assistant attorney general presented the OLC’s rationale for why the invasion and extrajudicial rendition of Maduro was not a war. To my astonishment, virtually all the contents of the “classified” OLC memo that I’d been told not to discuss were then discussed in a non-classified briefing. I thanked him for his extensive discussion of the “classified” document, as his public remarks allow me to publicly comment on his remarks. So much for the ridiculous over-classification racket.
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