We’re analogizing a weeks-long taking of physical infrastructure to avert a LABOR dispute 80 years ago to a permanent deputizing of a private company’s people and resources for purposes of killing and surveillance. What are we doing here? If you want to know why DoW prefers to be solely limited to “legal” applications is because, as John Yoo made abundantly clear following 9/11, you can always find a lackey in OLC to draft a memo in secret under some demented legal theory to give cover for anything, including torture and dragnet surveillance of Americans (oh, is that what we’re talking about here…?)