The al-Awlaki memo was published in 2014, only after the A.C.L.U. and The New York Times filed suits seeking its release, and only because the Obama administration had undermined its own national security arguments by engaging in what one judge characterized as “an extensive public relations campaign” to convince the public that Mr. al-Awlaki’s killing was lawful.
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