that military was backed by the administration of president lyndon johnson and led by general suharto, who would go on to rule indonesia for decades. in memos made public on tuesday, u.s. embassy officials cheered reports describing the slaughter and indiscriminate killings of indonesians. one memo from late 1965 read -- "generally victims are taken out of populous areas before being killed and bodies are buried rather than thrown in river." historians have already established that the u.s. provided the indonesian army with financial, military and intelligence support at the time of the mass killings. back in the united states, president trump's dominant for drug czar tom marino withdrew from consideration tuesday after a washington post/60 minutes investigation found he let drug industry -- drug industry-backed effort to weaken federal government's ability to crack down on the opioid epidemic. the bill, backed by marino, made it nearly impossible for the dea to keep large quantities of prescription opioid pain pills off the black market. in a tweet, president trump acknowledged marin