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Pete Hegseths bomb-first, question-later approach to alleged narcoterrorists is reportedly helping those same terrorists get off scot-free.
A Hegseth-directed bombing on a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Ecuador destroyed the evidence that was crucial to the prosecution of the survivors, according to a damning Washington Post report.
Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila, a 42-year-old Ecuadorian native with a drug-trafficking record, was one of two survivors of an Oct. 16 U.S. strike on a submarine that the Pentagon alleges was carrying drugs overseas. Two others were killed in the strike, and the fourth was extradited to Colombia.
The U.S. military captured Chila, then sent him back to Ecuador to be prosecuted. However, the U.S. provided the Ecuadorian government with no evidence that could lead to Chilas arrest. Any evidence proving that Chila was committing a crime on that boat, such as seized drugs, GPS records, or cell phones, was blasted to the bottom of the sea.
The Ecuadorian government was forced to let Chila go, according to the Washington Post.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-pete-embarrassing-boat-strike-181752073.html
J_William_Ryan
(3,306 posts)Not only is the regime involved in the illegal killing of civilians, but its lawless actions are allowing those potentially guilty to go free.
Ol Janx Spirit
(626 posts)..and getting the American people used to it.
Mission accomplished.
struggle4progress
(125,327 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,085 posts)Because this whole extrajudicial execution of...well, whoever they say they are...is all about trying to make those two look like get-things-done, tough guys.
Attilatheblond
(8,204 posts)Frankly, without evidence, I do NOT think those people in those boats were running drugs. But killing all of them is NOT how we get actionable information of the people in the 'distribution' network bringing drugs into the US.
If those people were actually running drugs, blowing them up was Trump protecting the top guys in the smuggling, or taking out competitors to the monster he pardoned. My money is on the likelihood Trump is being paid off for protection of the REAL drug kingpins.
IronLionZion
(50,766 posts)small boats are completely destroyed
Martin Eden
(15,324 posts)While an actual criminal court of law requires evidence to convict -- alleged evidence that Hegseth destroyed.
On the one hand we have people suspected but acquitted on charges of drug trafficking.
On the other we have someone who ordered the killing of people without evidence or trial.
WHO is the REAL CRIMINAL?
Kid Berwyn
(22,765 posts)And yet