It's worth noting that the Office of Legal Counsel 1) is responsible for producing wild contortions of logic to produce anything resembling a legal defense of a

It's worth noting that the Office of Legal Counsel 1) is responsible for producing wild contortions of logic to produce anything resembling a legal defense of any of a president's chosen actions (e.g. torture), and 2) is actually part of the Department of Justice and therefore reports to the attorney general.