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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

A Venezuelan boat that the U.S. military destroyed in the Caribbean last week had altered its course and appeared to have turned around before the attack started because the people onboard had apparently spotted a military aircraft stalking it, according to American officials familiar with the matter.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, added that the military hit the vessel repeatedly before it sank.

The disclosures add new detail to an operation that was a startling departure from traditional drug interdiction efforts, escalating President Trump’s use of the military for matters typically handled by law enforcement. Legal specialists have disputed that it was lawful for the military, on President Trump’s orders, to target and kill drug smuggling suspects as if they were combatants in a war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/trump-drug-boat-venezuela-strike.html

So the refugees had turned around and Trump order the US military to murder all the people on the boat. Someone is going to prison.

Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

A Venezuelan boat that the U.S. military destroyed in the Caribbean last week had altered its course and appeared to have turned around before the attack started because the people onboard had apparently spotted a military aircraft stalking it, according to American officials familiar with the matter.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, added that the military hit the vessel repeatedly before it sank.

The disclosures add new detail to an operation that was a startling departure from traditional drug interdiction efforts, escalating President Trump’s use of the military for matters typically handled by law enforcement. Legal specialists have disputed that it was lawful for the military, on President Trump’s orders, to target and kill drug smuggling suspects as if they were combatants in a war.

Anonymous wrote:Maduro is not only the president of Venezuela. He's also the head of a cartel. The govt of Venezuela and the cartel are intertwined as a narco state.

As an aside, Tren de Aragua is a paramilitary organization of Venezuela at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Even Rand Paul finds this act appalling although, because even the bravest among Republicans are afraid of Dear Leader, he is choosing to condemn Vance for his "despicable" comments praising it instead of the act itself.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’

What a sad time when Rand Patel becomes the voice of reason.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/08/congress/rand-paul-jd-vance-boat-strike-00551368

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the “disdain for human life” shown Saturday in an online post praising a deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers.

After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the “highest and best use of our military,” Paul lashed out Saturday night: “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” he wrote on X.

Paul told reporters Monday that the message was in keeping with his long criticism of unchecked U.S. military power and questioned whether the attack, which reportedly killed 11, was legally or morally justified.

“Maybe [the boat] was coming here. Maybe it wasn’t. But nobody’s even asking whether we need to prove that. We just blow them up,” he said, adding: “I got no love lost for these people. But at the same time, is this the new Coast Guard policy? ... Almost none of the boats we’ve interdicted does it end up with us blowing up the boat.”

“But I think what really ticked me off and got me going,” Paul continued, referring to Vance, “was for someone to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a shit what anybody who was going criticize him was going to say. That to me was a disdain for human life and a disdain for processes.”

Anonymous wrote:Even Rand Paul finds this act appalling although, because even the bravest among Republicans are afraid of Dear Leader, he is choosing to condemn Vance for his "despicable" comments praising it instead of the act itself.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he was compelled to publicly dress down Vice President JD Vance, a fellow Republican and former colleague, over the “disdain for human life” shown Saturday in an online post praising a deadly strike on alleged drug traffickers.

After Vance said the strike on a small Venezuelan boat was the “highest and best use of our military,” Paul lashed out Saturday night: “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” he wrote on X.

Paul told reporters Monday that the message was in keeping with his long criticism of unchecked U.S. military power and questioned whether the attack, which reportedly killed 11, was legally or morally justified.

“Maybe [the boat] was coming here. Maybe it wasn’t. But nobody’s even asking whether we need to prove that. We just blow them up,” he said, adding: “I got no love lost for these people. But at the same time, is this the new Coast Guard policy? ... Almost none of the boats we’ve interdicted does it end up with us blowing up the boat.”

“But I think what really ticked me off and got me going,” Paul continued, referring to Vance, “was for someone to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a shit what anybody who was going criticize him was going to say. That to me was a disdain for human life and a disdain for processes.”

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Marco Rubio was the best, the only legitimate, cabinet member. He is going to go to jail when this is all over and haved a lot of time to dwell on every one of his choices.

Who thought that?

His fellow Senators, for one. I think he’s the only Trump nominee who was confirmed with a voice vote. Many, many columns from experts at the time who were relieved that he was qualified and somewhat normal compared to the clown car that is the rest of this cabinet.

Anonymous wrote:

Meet the Utah software engineer and distillery co-owner giving notes to Elon Musk and DOGE

Jennica Pounds, who until recently was posting anonymously on social media platform X as @DataRepublican, has garnered attention from him and other political officials, as reported by Rolling Stone.

She also co-owns Spirits of the Wasatch Distillery in Salt Lake City with her husband, a former officer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as reported in a Feb. 15 article by Utah Stories that profiles the business. As of Friday, the “Our Story” webpage on the distillery’s website appeared to have been removed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We thought Marco Rubio was the best, the only legitimate, cabinet member. He is going to go to jail when this is all over and haved a lot of time to dwell on every one of his choices.

Who thought that?

His fellow Senators, for one. I think he’s the only Trump nominee who was confirmed with a voice vote. Many, many columns from experts at the time who were relieved that he was qualified and somewhat normal compared to the clown car that is the rest of this cabinet.

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Marco Rubio was the best, the only legitimate, cabinet member. He is going to go to jail when this is all over and haved a lot of time to dwell on every one of his choices.

Who thought that?

Anonymous wrote:We thought Marco Rubio was the best, the only legitimate, cabinet member. He is going to go to jail when this is all over and haved a lot of time to dwell on every one of his choices.

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"I haven't looked into it. But they chose this boat out of thousands. If you give me an alternative hypothesis for why they bombed this boat, I will consider it. The normal leftist line is that racism is the root cause of all government action. This doesn't fit, because basically everyone on boats in that region would be black or brown. Yet only this boat was struck. So racism can't be the answer. And that's the only answer the left ever has."

Why are you commenting if you haven't looked into it. The Trump administration has not said if they had any intel other than observing a fast-moving open dory that had four high powered outboards on it.

The story I've heard is that Trump had announced he had a major announcement, and he would make a speech on September 2 in the Oval Office. He was 45 minutes late. The announcement was lame, that he was moving the Space Force to Alabama. The delay was to announce this great victory against the drug trade. The Navy had not blown up anyone yet. They searched frantically and had killed these 11 unknowns by evening. These people were killed to appease the Chancelor.