Extrajudicial Killings = Murder?
The White House keeps blowing up boats it says are running drugs in international waters, and Sen. Rand Paul continues to be a lonely Republican voice sounding the alarm.
In an interview yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Paul said that the White House has presented no evidence to Congress that the boats they have been attacking are indeed transporting drugs.
But even if they had, Paul said, “a briefing’s not enough to overcome the Constitution.”
He went on:
"So far they have alleged that these people are drug dealers. No one’s said their name, no one’s said what evidence, no one’s said whether they’re armed. And we’ve had no evidence presented.
So at this point, I would call them extrajudicial killings.
And this is akin to what China does, to what Iran does with drug dealers—they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public.
So it’s wrong."
It’s a strange thing. Usually a high-octane personal attack from Trump is enough to clam a GOP lawmaker up about whatever topic sparked Trump’s ire.
But Paul’s still out here ringing the bell about the boat strikes, and Trump hasn’t posted about him in more than a week.
What are the rest of his colleagues so afraid of?
Source: "The Bulwark".
In an interview yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Paul said that the White House has presented no evidence to Congress that the boats they have been attacking are indeed transporting drugs.
But even if they had, Paul said, “a briefing’s not enough to overcome the Constitution.”
He went on:
"So far they have alleged that these people are drug dealers. No one’s said their name, no one’s said what evidence, no one’s said whether they’re armed. And we’ve had no evidence presented.
So at this point, I would call them extrajudicial killings.
And this is akin to what China does, to what Iran does with drug dealers—they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public.
So it’s wrong."
It’s a strange thing. Usually a high-octane personal attack from Trump is enough to clam a GOP lawmaker up about whatever topic sparked Trump’s ire.
But Paul’s still out here ringing the bell about the boat strikes, and Trump hasn’t posted about him in more than a week.
What are the rest of his colleagues so afraid of?
Source: "The Bulwark".
