The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike Thursday on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer, a defense official and another person familiar with the matter said Friday.
But this is exactly why “a defense official and another person familiar with the matter” leaked this to the press. By doing that, it makes it harder for the Administration to just deport them out of sight.
They will still try and do it, of course, but the media will continue to ask questions about it, whether or not they have been kicked out of the Pentagon…
The owners of the media aren’t going to let them. They already should have been blasting it wall to wall as war crimes. A few small outlets that most people never see will constantly cover it, of course. But in a week you will see nothing of it on any of the major outlets that people see daily.
Further, they’re saying "suspected” as if it’s factual. “Alleged/ly” is gone.