Overseas/Interdiction
Trump wants to jail Democrats who noted soldiers may disobey illegal orders
In a video message posted this week, six Democratic legislators with military or intelligence backgrounds remind members of the armed forces that they are not obligated to follow unlawful orders. That point is legally…
Trump claims he’s saved 350,000 lives by murdering suspected drug smugglers
As of Wednesday, President Donald Trump had ordered 14 military attacks on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coast of Colombia, killing a total of 61 people. But according to Trump, each of those…
Trump allegedly misidentified a Colombian fisherman as a ‘narcoterrorist’
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says one of the "narcoterrorists" recently killed by U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean was a "fisherman" who had "no ties to the drug trade." That…
Trump thinks killing suspected smugglers is the key to winning the drug war
During a press conference in the Oval Office this week, a reporter asked President Donald Trump about his new policy of summarily executing suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, which so far has included five…
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