New DHS Nominee Spent Years Justifying War on Terror’s Excesses
▻http://www.thenation.com/blog/176726/new-homeland-security-chief-spent-years-justifying-war-terrors-excesses
... as AP reports:
As general counsel at the Defense Department during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Jeh Johnson] was an aggressive advocate on a number of complex and contentious legal issues. He oversaw the escalation of the use of unmanned drone strikes, the revamping of military commissions to try terrorism suspects rather than using civilian courts and the repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay service members. He also mapped out the legal defense for the American cross-border raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden .