The dangerous nature of the administration's legal rationale and strategy are magnified by a series of events that have happened in the last three months before the strikes even began. Public reporting has it that The senior Judge Advocate General, the chief legal officer in southcom, raised serious concerns about the legality of these strikes in August. On October 1, when the Department of Defense briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee about these strikes, they neglected to bring any uniformed officers or personnel from southcom to the briefing. (11:19–11:30)
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Asserts that the senior legal officer in SOUTHCOM raised concerns about the legality of the strikes.
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