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DependsTrump Used to Fantasize About Killing Suspects. Now He’s Doing It.
What the article says. The Bulwark published “Trump Used to Fantasize About Killing Suspects. Now He’s Doing It..” In the piece, they put it this way: Mona Charen talks with Adam Isacson and John Walsh of the Washington Office on Latin America about Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s deadly strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats, and the secret legal theory being used to justify them. They examine the killing of survivors in a second strike, Pete Hegseth’s purge of military lawyers, the evidence that the campaign hasn’t reduced the cocaine supply, and why U.S. allies are increasingly wary of sharing intelligence that could be used in the strikes. Further reading: WOLA — Killing Spree: Extrajudicial Executions…
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