Michael Moore and journalist Hedges: Obama drone memo to ‘legally justify what they’re already doing’

Appearing at a recent forum with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges said that the Obama administration’s recently released legal memo on its drone assassination program is really just an attempt to justify what they were already doing.

“It looks like it’s written by a first-year law student,” Hedges said. “I mean, you know, whatever you think of John Yoo — and I hope he burns in hell — he actually had a much more sophisticated legal argument to torture human beings.”

He added that the drone program, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act are all just part of attempting to “legally justify what they’re already doing,” saying that he sees companies like Shell and corporate lobbyists as “forces of death, literally.”

Moore said that he’s glad to appear with Hedges even after all the threats he’s faced over the years, including a crazed conservative who plotted to blow up his house in Michigan. Although a supporter of President Barack Obama’s, Moore recently urged fans to oppose Obama’s “dangerous” erosion of civil liberties, especially by way of the NDAA.

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